Please pass on to your students, friends, family or acquantances. Flooding has reached historic proportions along the Mississippi River. The flood crest passed through Memphis, Tennessee causing extensive damage. The flood crest is due in Louisiana begining Thursday May 12th 2011.
In by book, Plantation Life on Old River and Beyond, pages 8-10 address the Morganza, Louisiana spillway relief northwest of Baton Rouge. This includes the affects it has on the local wildlife to include various snakes, alligators, deers, foxes, raccoons, rabbits and other hungry animals on both sides of the twenty miles long levees during the 1973 flood.
The wall of 5-25 feet of water is due in Louisiana.
This is history repeating itself. I thought you should know about my Louisiana historical connection.
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