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It's aggravate than we thought. It's working to take everything, anything we've got. It's macabre. It's working to take out our entire community.
--Kelli Trimm, resident
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Butte La Rose, Louisiana (CNN) -- On a two-lane road namely slits through a dense forest of Louisiana cypress trees, intermingled with alley,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dark creeks, sits a small community trapped in the path of a looming calamity.
Hundreds of people packed into the Butte La Rose firehouse to study about the flood projections from the Army Corps of Engineers.
Col. Ed Fleming conveyed the dire news.
"Listen to me, listen to me, OK," he said. "I'm telling you the depth of water from right here will be 15 feet."
The number stunned the multitude.
Pierre Watermeyer cornered to friends and said, "It's over with, it's over with."
Open story: iReporters/CNN correspondents cover the flood
The 15-foot flood forecast in Butte La Rose is based on the Corps inundation chart for while the Morganza Spillway is opened.
On Friday evening, the Corps said it would open the spillway once river streams approach 1.5 million cubic feet per second. That could occur as early as Saturday, Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Residents flee as officials await word ashore spillway
Opening the spillway will redirect floodwaters from the Mississippi River through the Atchafalaya River Basin, which runs among Baton Rouge and Lafayette south toward Morgan City.
There are more than 800 homes in the Butte La Rose space of St. Martins Parish, which sits right in the flood route. It's home to one eclectic accumulation of Cajuns who've come to this hideaway because generations to drift via the secluded waters arresting crawfish. They cry their homes "camps."
Each has funny names like Timbuktu, Abracadabra and Bahama Mama's.
Watermeyer achieved devising and drawing his ruddy and yellow camp sign a few weeks antecedent, profession his home "Last Dance."
"I all wanted to name the camp Last Dance," he said as he packed his belongings.
But now, he namely racing opposition the timer to salvage what he can before the floodwaters start to bulge and crouch out of the tree lines.
He's removed closets, sinks, the refrigerator and furniture, and he even plans to loosen his air-conditioning element and take that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too.
Butte La Rose will soon be a specter town. Residents are packaging up and braining out.
"It's just a somber mood. Everybody's just doing what they got to do," Watermeyer said. "At least we have period to get out."
After the town appointment in the town firehouse, Kelli Trimm stood afterward to her husband, sobbing.
"It's worse than we thought," Trimm said. "It's going to take everything,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], everything we've got. It's scary. It's going to take out our whole community."
Trimm and her husband shook to Butte La Rose after her husband lost a thigh meantime rescuing people after Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana.
She said it's taken them 5 annuals to disburse for their modest home. Inside the firehouse, Fleming could sense the tension and fear.
Stunned residents fair gazed at him, as if they were waiting fknow next to nothing ofmeone to acquaint them they'd just woken up from a scaring dream.
In a thick Massachusetts accent, Fleming told the spectators about moving 14 times in his 22-year military vocation.
The crowd got calm as the colonel leaned over the podium and his voice started to tremble.
"It's an interesting entity," Fleming said. "When that moving truck pedals away, and you're standing in your driveway with your home and a couple of suitcases and a carton. That's when you ascertain out what's essential to you."
The poignant moment came with an final ominous advising.
It will take about 2 days for the waters to start rushing into Butte La Rose after the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway are opened. After that, officials mention the floodwaters could sit here until mid-June.
"When they tell you it's time to evacuate, you absence to heed their admonition for it's solemn," Fleming told the crowd.
With that, the residents of Butte La Rose returned to their camps and kept loading trailers with boxes full of private treasures.
Watermeyer says he plans to mallet around Butte La Rose until the water starts to touch his newly painted "Last Dance" camp sign.
He wants to take that picture,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], then pack up the sign and head for higher ground.
But Watermeyer makes it explicit that he will be behind, even now it takes weeks.
"It's not going to be the last disco, it's no going to be. We'll dance again around here," he says.
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