2011 Mississippi River Spring Floods

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“But if a bear gets confused and winds up on the 50-yardline 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 ...

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Drainage will be a major topic of discussion next week by the Ouachita Parish Police Jury. At its regular meeting Monday, police jurors are expected to discuss several items related to parishwide drainage. Problems with drainage in several areas of ...

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[Bandwagon King]

_ The first gate was opened today at 3:01 P.M. CST May 14, 2011 _

Looked like they kept it closed as long as they could. It was only about 1-2' from topping the levee in most places.

[HelmutVII]

Barges get loose on the Mississippi and hit the 190 bridge in Baton Rouge. No damage to the bridge. If one of those barges would have hit a levee in a curve of the river it could have been a disaster.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/lat...at-bridge.html

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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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"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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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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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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[TravlnCajun]

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

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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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