Mississippi River Flooding: More Gates Opened At Morganza Spillway, Residents Warned To Get Out
By Michael Kunzelman
KROTZ SPRINGS, La. (AP) — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub.
Most residents heeded the warnings and headed for higher ground, even in places where there hasn’t been so much as a trickle, hopeful that the flooding engineered to protect New Orleans and Baton Rouge would be merciful to their way of life.
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