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  1. Default Louisiana readies to open spillway, flood Cajun country - Tulsa World


    Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's populated Cajun country ...

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  2. Default Officials: Flooding to force Louisianawildlife to higher ground - USA Today


    "But if a bear gets confused and winds up on the 50-yard-line of the ( University of Louisiana at Lafayette) stadium, we're going to get him." Barham said his agents will trap and relocate any bears that encroach on heavily populated areas. "We're going to ...

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  3. Default Louisiana residents evacuate as flood spillway opens - USA Today


    LAFAYETTE, La. -- Officials opened the Morganza Spillway on ... particularly in Baton Rouge and New Orleans , was also a decision to flood parts of central south Louisiana. About 2,500 people live inside the floodway, and 22,500 others, along with 11,000 ...

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  4. Default La. floodgate opens, diverting Mississippi River - YAHOO!


    MORGANZA, La. – Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land ...

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  5. #149

    Default Re: Spring Floods

    Here is a an interesting quote from USA Today:

    "Many will go into thickets and wooded lots outside the basin until the water recedes; nature is an adaptable system," Barham said. "But if a bear gets confused and winds up on the 50-yard-line of the (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) stadium, we're going to get him."

    http://www.usatoday.com/weather/floo...wildlife_n.htm


  6. Default Cajuns with deep roots cede to flood - St. Louis Post-Dispatch


    BUTTE LA ROSE, La. • You do not really want to ask a Cajun why he lives in a swamp, especially when he is packing everything he owns because the very swamp he loves is about to swallow up his house. The Army Corps of Engineers opened a portion of the ...

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  7. Default Flood-control bid soaks Cajuns - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette


    Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 ...

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  8. Default Flooding to force La. wildlife to higher ground, official says


    "But if a bear gets confused and winds up on the 50-yard-line of the (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) stadium, we're going to get him." Barham said his agents will trap and relocate any bears that encroach on heavily populated areas. "We're going to ...

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  9. #153

    Default Re: Spring Floods

    In reality, in addition to fueling the country and helping to feed it...we also serve as its drainage ditch.

    igeaux.mobi


  10. Default Evacuations ordered for part of St. Landry Parish - News-Star


    How much water is it really? The Army Corps of Engineers opened one of the Morganza spillway's 125 bays at 3 p.m. this afternoon. One bay releases 10,000 cubic feet of water per second. Col. Ed Fleming, commander of the New Orleans District of the Corps ...

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  11. Default Town worries as Morganza spillway opens - Natchez Democrat


    (AP) — Phones at the police department in the little southern Louisiana town of Krotz Springs rang nonstop ... space in Baton Rouge and southwest to a family-owned warehouse in Lafayette. She was keeping a bed and a television in place at the tan ...

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  12. Default Mississippi River floodgate opens, spewing water toward homes, farmland - Record


    Cajuns are descendants of French-speakers who fled Acadia, what is now Canada’s Maritime provinces, as the British took control in the 18th century. In the nearby community of Stephensville, rows of sandbags were piled up outside nearly every home.

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