In order to protect ourselves we need to move quickly and address all of these sites and repair them before the next flood season.

The only thing we leave out is locust.

We have the best chance now that we have ever had to make some substantial changes and improvements in the delta.

So it's an old, aging system that instead of protecting farmland is actually protecting small cities, levees of questionable integrity protecting higher value real estate.

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

We'll be drafting an order for the court to sign, and I'll be sending it over to Mr. Weitzman to review before I do that.