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New Orleans Prepares For Mississippi River Flooding

2016-01-09 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: SCOTT SIMON, HOST: All eyes in Louisiana are on the Mississippi River. Floods that swept the Midwest are headed south, and that will test the levee system in Louisiana. Tegan Wendland at member station WWNO reports that the Army Corps of Engineers has amped up its flood-fighting efforts to protect the city of New Orleans. TEGAN WENDLAND, BYLINE: Nearly half of New Orleans is at or below sea level, so flooding isn't unusual. That's what the city is lined with flood walls and levees. Army Corps...

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