Friday, May 13, 2011
Mississippi Delta braces for historic flooding
MIAMI (AFP) � US authorities were preparing Friday 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 Morganza Spillway could be opened this weekend to stop flood waters from washing into major cities, the US Army Corps of Engineers said, aiming to ease the Mississippi's flow as it heads for the Gulf of Mexico. "Baton Rouge and New Orleans will flood if we don't open that spillway," retired general Russel Honore, best known for leading the military response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, warned on CNN. Continue reading
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