Word: destrehan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria...
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