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Flood watches are in effect for around 8 million people across parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, the Weather Prediction Center said. The watches begin to expire Friday evening ...
Significant flooding was unfolding in the New Orleans area, forecasters warned. The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency on Wednesday night for the I-10 corridor in the New ...
Flooding risks were highest for large sections of southeastern Louisiana, including New Orleans and the rest of the delta, and a strip of southwestern Mississippi, including the vast majority of ...
Francine slammed into Louisiana's coast as a Category 2 hurricane Wednesday leaving hundreds of thousands without power and widespread flooding.
Major flooding in the spring of 1891 on both the Ohio and Mississippi River, causing crevasses (bank and levee failures) in multiple locations of the lower Mississippi River valley, including Robertsonville, Mississippi; Concord, Louisiana; Carrollton (New Orleans), Louisiana; and Amesville , Louisiana. [10]
Rainfall in New Orleans totaled 5-7 inches, and some pockets got 8 inches, he said. On the Northshore, some places even saw double digits in rainfall. Flooding in the region was "no surprise ...
In 1965, New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Betsy, which caused tremendous flooding in the New Orleans area. The federal government began a levee-building program to protect New Orleans from a Category 3 hurricane (the same strength as Betsy). These series of levees were completed in recent years before Hurricane Katrina.
The Bonnet Carré Spillway / ˈ b ɒ n iː ˈ k ɛr iː / is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, about 12 miles (19 km) west of New Orleans, it allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico.