had Joe Frazier and you had Foreman. They would go 15 rounds and they were pounding each other. They were all bloody and bruised. That's what this system was like after this flood. They were just bloody and bruised and think of having the project flood of record on these levees and structures for greater than 60 days. There were sand boils. There were slides. There was damage to the structures. When you operate the Morganza structure for the first time since 1973 there's going to be some challenges when you operate something like that. Of course we do all the operations and maintenance all the time. That is funny because I was on the structure that day when we opened it up. And Russell Beauvais who is the supervisor out there said "okay Colonel, get up on in that crane and open up that gate." I said "Russell, I am not going to do that." I said "you guys haven't opened these gates for years with no water
had Joe Frazier and you had Foreman. They would go 15 rounds and they were pounding each other. They were all bloody and bruised. That's what this system was like after this flood. They were just bloody and bruised and think of having the project flood of record on these levees and structures for greater than 60 days. There were sand boils. There were slides. There was damage to the structures. When you operate the Morganza structure for the first time since 1973 there's going to be some challenges when you operate something like that. Of course we do all the operations and maintenance all the time. That is funny because I was on the structure that day when we opened it up. And Russell Beauvais who is the supervisor out there said "okay Colonel, get up on in that crane and open up that gate." I said "Russell, I am not going to do that." I said "you guys haven't opened these gates for years with no water
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