however, you have the levees which should protect areas like new iberia and other small communities aroundthing is, will those levees hold? that is the big question. very important one, at that. give you an idea what levees happen to be. let me show you what happens along the river when you have a flooding situation without levees. the rising waters and the waters fan out and then you have water moving miles and miles inland away from the main river bed, the main channel. when that happens, widespread damage and widespread flooding. in a situation where you have levees, the artificial structure is built on both sides of the river bed and the water can rise, but, in theory, it's not expected to go over the side of the levee that you have. the structure. almost like a fortification, if you will. the game plan is, hopefully, those waters will not top the levees. one thing we need is the cooperation of mother nature. in other words, we don't need any precipitation. right now the forecast is going to keep the rain far to the north, also to the east and more of a developing farther out towards t