Posts Tagged ‘New Orleans’
With The High Waters Also Comes The Great fishing
a Flood Warning Has Been Issued For Metro New Orleans As Mississippi River Swells To Levels Not Seen In More Than 75 Years http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/weather/alertinfo/2395198
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Spillways Being Opened In Attempt To Spare New Orleans
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Riding the Natchez paddlewheeler boat. Built from parts of various generations, the engine is from 1925, the controls are WW2 vintage. This Natchez was launched in 1975.
On Wednesday 7-14-10, we take a 2 hour Dinner cruise on the Natchez Riverboat . This is the paddlewheel, 25 tons of white oak churn the Mississippi
The Dukes of Dixieland were playing. They are the oldest continuing Dixieland jazz band, more than 32 years of tradition stand behind today’s Dukes. For more infomation, see the links below;
http://www.dukesofdixieland.com/
http://www.crossroads.net/index.php
http://www.crossroads.net/goneworleansblog/
http://www.steamboatnatchez.com/
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Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Richard Blink is now trying to restore the wetlands “sponge” and native species by replanting marsh trees and grasses in the bayous before bringing Mississippi River water, silt and mud into them.
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HueyPBridgeWideninghttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/hueypbridgewideningTravelHuey P Long Bridge, bridges, river, history, new orleans, documentaryThe History of the Huey P Long Bridge
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Carnival Triumph departs New orleans Riverwalk terminal and heads up the Mississippi River on another cruise.
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Heading south to Mississippi River Delta, ~70 miles south of New Orleans. If you ever plan on driving to Venice, LA, from Downtown NO take LA 90 W over the Mississippi River (that majestic but old bridge, toll-free getting out of NO but $1 coming in) then at one point take the exit to LA 23 South and then all the way down to the end of that road called Belle-Chasse Hwy. This area was the most affected by Katrina, been on this road in July ‘06, war zone all the way down to Venice. Next video is all about Mississippi River Delta. Enjoy the ride.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Highway_23
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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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Jazz Harbor Cruise:
Take a two-hour cruise from the heart of the French Quarter back in time to when life was slow and graceful as the current on the Mississippi. The Steamboat Natchez is the only continuously operating Steamboat.
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