this is already spilloff from the mississippi river. what you see behind me, here the structure is the morganza floodway structure. there s 125 gates and they will start opening them about 1:30 central time. when you walk over the bridge here, you look back over that dry land, those gates will send that water back over that way and it will curve to the south about 100 miles down to morgan city, and that flooding through this river basin is what will be flooded here in the coming days, we re told the water will take about three days to reach morgan city, so there s a lot of communities, a lot of wide open farm land as well. as you mentioned, the trigger for this is that 1.5 million cubic feet per second of water on the mississippi river, that
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