Wendell Curole

I do this channel changing, waiting for somebody to send some good news. Please, somebody, see something that's not going to come here. But by the time it got close, that thing just headed, I mean, right for the parish line. I couldn't tell what was going to happen.

I do this channel changing, waiting for somebody to send some good news. Please, somebody, see something that's not going to come here. But by the time it got close, that thing just headed, I mean, right for the parish line. I couldn't tell what was going to happen.

I do this channel changing, waiting for somebody to send some good news. Please, somebody, see something that's not going to come here. But by the time it got close, that thing just headed, I mean, right for the parish line. I couldn't tell what was going to happen.

I mean, you get so disoriented because when the storm's hitting, it's so dark, you don't know if it's day or night. And I lost complete track of day and night, complete track of it. And I'm looking into the darkness and little tiny pieces of leaves are hitting on the glass, getting ripped.

I mean, you get so disoriented because when the storm's hitting, it's so dark, you don't know if it's day or night. And I lost complete track of day and night, complete track of it. And I'm looking into the darkness and little tiny pieces of leaves are hitting on the glass, getting ripped.

I mean, you get so disoriented because when the storm's hitting, it's so dark, you don't know if it's day or night. And I lost complete track of day and night, complete track of it. And I'm looking into the darkness and little tiny pieces of leaves are hitting on the glass, getting ripped.

I tell the guys, I say, look, no matter what happens, if we can see grass on the ground tomorrow, which means floodwaters didn't come in, it's a good day, nothing else matters.

I tell the guys, I say, look, no matter what happens, if we can see grass on the ground tomorrow, which means floodwaters didn't come in, it's a good day, nothing else matters.

I tell the guys, I say, look, no matter what happens, if we can see grass on the ground tomorrow, which means floodwaters didn't come in, it's a good day, nothing else matters.

When things calmed down, I mean, it really hit me that, wow, I mean, you couldn't ask for us to have been more successful. We couldn't have been more lucky. We couldn't have handled a worse storm than this. This was pretty much close to the worst that this system can take.

When things calmed down, I mean, it really hit me that, wow, I mean, you couldn't ask for us to have been more successful. We couldn't have been more lucky. We couldn't have handled a worse storm than this. This was pretty much close to the worst that this system can take.

When things calmed down, I mean, it really hit me that, wow, I mean, you couldn't ask for us to have been more successful. We couldn't have been more lucky. We couldn't have handled a worse storm than this. This was pretty much close to the worst that this system can take.

And I guarantee you, if we had listened to the Corps and done everything that they wanted us to do, our levee would have been four to five feet lower than it was for Hurricane Ida, and we would have lost people's lives.

And I guarantee you, if we had listened to the Corps and done everything that they wanted us to do, our levee would have been four to five feet lower than it was for Hurricane Ida, and we would have lost people's lives.

And I guarantee you, if we had listened to the Corps and done everything that they wanted us to do, our levee would have been four to five feet lower than it was for Hurricane Ida, and we would have lost people's lives.

I see the crowd, and I'm just going to drive by. I didn't think anything about it. But they flagged me down and said, Wendell, thank you. It all worked.

I see the crowd, and I'm just going to drive by. I didn't think anything about it. But they flagged me down and said, Wendell, thank you. It all worked.

I see the crowd, and I'm just going to drive by. I didn't think anything about it. But they flagged me down and said, Wendell, thank you. It all worked.

When you build a project this big, there's so many people that are involved in getting this done. So when people clap for me, it's for everybody.

When you build a project this big, there's so many people that are involved in getting this done. So when people clap for me, it's for everybody.