Residents of Louisiana face agonizing wait for flooding

 
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Published: May 23, 2011   

BUTTE LAROSE, La. — Louisiana residents in the path of diverted floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River kept up an agonizing vigil as hundreds of homes outside levees are threatened by the slow-moving surge that has swamped houses as high as the rooftops in Mississippi.

photo - Floodwaters from the Mississippi River are slowly starting to recede in Vicksburg, Miss. AP Photo
Floodwaters from the Mississippi River are slowly starting to recede in Vicksburg, Miss. AP Photo

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Floodwaters intentionally redirected by the Army Corps of Engineers into Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin still haven’t reached a number of small towns along that route. Meanwhile, Vicksburg...
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