Posts Tagged ‘Louisiana’
After a lovely dinner in the Natchez’s dinning hall (from 6 to 7pm), the steamboat started the relaxing cruise on the Mississippi River where the passengers enjoyed the view of the New Orleans’ skyline for the next two hours with a live Jazz music band playing during the last hour.
http://www.steamboatnatchez.com/dinner_cruise.html
2011 BatB NOLA con.
Recorded with Kodak Play Touch Pocket Video Camera on July 11, 2011. Clips put together using Windows Live Movie Maker.
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Mud Boating on the Mississippi River in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
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In this week’s Bottom Line, This Week in Louisiana Agriculture’s Neil Melancon tells us about the economic damage caused by rising river levels and what’s being done to prevent widespread property and crop damage.
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In Part 10 of Episode 73 of “Gullah/Geechee TV Nayshun Nyews with Queen Quet”’s coverage of the “Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival™ 2011″ www.gullahgeechee.info, Queen Quet is presented with a key to the City of Donaldsonville as part of the ceremony on the Mississippi River.
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Along the New Orleans Harbour Point a short lunch and jazz cruise.
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This video was formatted and edited by Aloke Mukerjee using the original short silent film produced by the Signal Corps of the Mississippi flood of 1927. The accompanying song Louisiana 1927 is by Marcia Ball.
(The material comes from a 3/4″ U-matic video viewing copy made available at the National Archives facility in College Park, MD. National Archives identifiers: ARC: 24699, NAIL: 111-H-1194.)
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
The flood began when heavy rains pounded the central basin of the Mississippi in the summer of 1926. By September, the Mississippi’s tributaries in Kansas and Iowa were swollen to capacity. On New Year’s Day of 1927, the Cumberland River at Nashville topped levees at 56.2 feet (17 m), a level that remains a record to this day.
Flooding overtook the levees causing the Mounds Landing to break with more than double the water volume of Niagara Falls. The Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2). This water flooded an area 80 km (50 miles) wide and more than 160 km (100 miles) long. The area was inundated up to a depth of 30 feet (10 m). The flood caused over $400 million in damages and killed 246 people in seven states.
The flood affected Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Arkansas was hardest hit, with 14% of its territory covered by floodwaters. By May 1927, the Mississippi River below Memphis, Tennessee, reached a width of 60 miles (97 km).
During this period segregation was rampant.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD), nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992
2011 Mississippi Floods
The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 are among the largest and most damaging along the U.S. waterway in the past century, rivaling major floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems dumped record rainfall on the Mississippi River watershed. Rising from springtime snowmelt, the river and many of its tributaries began to swell to record levels by the beginning of May. Areas along the Mississippi itself experiencing flooding include Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. U.S. President Barack Obama declared the western counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi federal disaster areas. For the first time in 37 years, the Morganza Spillway has been opened, deliberately flooding 4,600 square miles (12,000 km2) of rural Louisiana to save most of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Fourteen people were killed in Arkansas, with at least 383 killed across seven states in the preceding storms. Thousands of homes were ordered evacuated, including over 1,300 in Memphis, Tennessee, and more than 24,500 in Louisiana and Mississippi state. Some people are disregarding mandatory evacuation orders.
Up to 13% of U.S. petroleum refinery output is expected to be disrupted by flood levels exceeding historical records in several locations, with gasoline prices expected to rise. The flood crested in Memphis on May 10 and artificially crested in southern Louisiana on May 15, a week earlier than it would have if spillways had not been opened. The Army Corps of Engineers stated that an area in Louisiana between Simmesport and Baton Rouge is expected to be inundated with 20–30 feet (6.1–9.1 m) of water. Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and many other river towns are threatened, but officials stress that they should be able to avoid catastrophic flooding.
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A very informative video about the Morganza Spillway in Louisiana. Thanks to the US Army Corps of Engineers for this video.
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/
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CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports from Baton Rouge, La. on the reopening of the Mississippi River to commercial traffic at two critical spots.
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Thanx for everyones kind thoughts and prayers. I can safely say the “Red Stick” has dodged a bullet. Some weren’t as lucky.
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Hundreds of people living along Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River heeded mandatory evacuation orders when the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza floodway north of Baton Rouge for the first time since 1973. The corps had warned residents of Butte LaRose that diverting the Mississippi River’s flood waters into the Atchafalaya basin could inundate the town.
Several weeks later, that dire forecast hasn’t come close to fruition. The slowly rising water has damaged a few homes in Butte LaRose but spared the vast majority. The mandatory evacuation order has been lifted.
Thousands of acres of crops, timber and catfish farms are still flooded, mostly by tributaries that backed up because the Mississippi River was so high. Hundreds of people are still displaced from flooded homes. Some people had nothing to go home to.
Eventually, the river water will enter the Gulf of Mexico, raising fears the fragile oyster beds, hit hard by last year’s BP oil spill, could suffer again.
Meanwhile, early estimates indicate flooding swamped 450,000 acres of cropland and caused more than $250 million in damages to agriculture in Mississippi alone, said Laura Hipp, a spokeswoman for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. However, an exact measure of the damage is not yet available because thousands of acres are still flooded.
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CBS News national correspondent Dean Reynolds reports on Ernest Couret, a third generation tour guide from Louisiana’s Cajun country, who will is preparing for major flooding from the Mississippi River.
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