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Title: Floods and Flooding Louisiana braces as flood spillway opens - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Post by: Guest on 16 May 2011, 03:00:05 AM
Louisiana braces as flood spillway opens - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
         


US Army engineers have opened a major Louisiana floodgate to ease pressure from the swollen Mississippi River, hoping to save cities by sacrificing small towns and farmland that face historic flooding.
       

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/15/3217118.htm