Posts Tagged ‘New Orleans’
Wildlife rush for high ground in flood areas
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Animals are on the move in flooded areas Officials are particularly worried about Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana They tell residents not to feed, touch or impede animals (CNN) -- Please don't feed the animals. Or touch them. Or do an...
Louisiana cities brace for river peak as bayou floods
Share this By Kristen Hays LIVONIA, Louisiana (Reuters) - Floodwater released from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou on Tuesday, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared t...
Haunted by the nightmare of Katrina | Seema Jilani
As Louisiana faces new floods, let's ensure that we never again permit politicians to send in mercenaries to 'restore order'The announcement that John Ashcroft will become the new ethics adviser to the private security company formerly known as Blackwa...
New Orleans trembles at the power of the Mississippi | Jim Gabour
Assurances that the Mississippi will stop rising at 'flood level' are drowned out by the rush of water pouring through spillwaysNew Orleans has already been inundated in one manner these last weeks, in the waves of dramatic visual images of disaster th...
Winners and losers in the Mississippi floods
Twenty-five thousand people to lose their homes as small towns and farmland are put under water to save citiesThe flooding on the Mississippi has been a season of cruel choices. Big cities – such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans – stay dry. Small to...
Thousands flee before US flooding
16 May 2011 Last updated at 08:06 ET Thousands are fleeing ahead of the man-made floods Thousands have evacuated the US state of Louisiana after floodgates were opened on Saturday to relieve pressure from the swollen Mississippi River. More floodgat...
More Gates Opened At Morganza Spillway, Residents In Path Of Flooding Warned To Get Out
By Michael Kunzelman KROTZ SPRINGS, La. (AP) -- Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the...
Key Mississippi floodgates opened
14 May 2011 Last updated at 16:32 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Col Ed Fleming: "Public safety is our number one priority" when opening the Morganza Spillway US army en...
US to open Mississippi spillway to ease city flood risk (AFP)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – US authorities were preparing Saturday to open up a major floodgate to ease pressure from the swollen Mississippi River hoping to save urban centers from historic flooding as rising waters swept south. Louisiana's Morg...
Key Louisiana spillway to open Saturday, putting towns in harm’s way
Rolling down the river STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Mississippi officials close boating activity in 14 counties hit by flooding Army Corps of Engineers is expected to open the spillway once river flows hit a trigger The Morganza Spillway has not been ope...
Morganza Spillway to be Opened After 38 Years
By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer May 14, 2011; 10:11 AM ET Workers help build a temporary levee in Krotz Springs, La., Friday, May 13, 2011, in advance of possible flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. Wo...
PBS Video: All Eyes on Mississippi River Levees, Spillways as Flood Tensions Continue
Listen to the AudioCrews filled sandbags and shored up levees along the Mississippi River as enormous volumes of water surged south. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the levee and floodgate system with the Association of State Floodplain Managers' ...
Flood waters set sights on Louisiana oil refineries (AFP)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Record flooding along the Mississippi River threatens to inundate at least two Louisiana refineries and hundreds of oil and gas wells, officials warned. "This is a very serious flood," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal t...
Louisiana residents jittery over Mississippi flooding
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Residents in low-lying areas have been put on alert There is concern about a plan to open the Morganza Spillway The spillway has not been opened since 1973 (CNN) -- As the Mississippi River was cresting Tuesday near Memphis, Tennesse...
Mississippi Flooding Hits Memphis, Heads Toward Weary New Orleans
Low-lying areas of Memphis, Tenn., have been flooded by the rising Mississippi River, forcing evacuations, but engineers said ...
NWS: Mississippi River crests in Memphis (AP)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling inches short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. National Weather Service meteorolog...
Epic flooding will test levee system as never before, experts say
Floodwaters forced Harrah's Resort and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, to close. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Hope prevails that the levee system for Mississippi River will hold "Landscape changes considerably" if levees fail, expert Sam Bentley says Levee syst...
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