growing, and additional perspective is both dams by design and by modifications after construction are providing more than a thousand-year-level of flood risk reduction for the citizens of houston. and so the fact that water is going to go around the -- an uncontrolled manner or this spillway means for addux, more than a thousand-year flood event. >> that's perspective. people now want to make it through this situation. thank god they're holding. it seems as though you're describing this as a bad or worse situation. you have to release some water right now to keep the level steady. that's going to create additional flooding in some of these communities. you're saying you're trying to stave off an even worse event. let me ask you, do you think people need to get out of those surrounding areas right now.