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...same time, channels dug for easier navigation, infrastructure projects or flood control are mainlining saltwater straight into the freshwater swamps and bayous, where the brine burns the marsh plants and kills off the freshwater cypress trees. The most controversial of those channels is the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO, known locally as "Mister Go"), which the Port of New Orleans commissioned 50 years ago for quick Gulf access. But quick access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east...
...parish that spends an estimated $3 million to $4 million a year on levee maintenance alone, it may be time to ask some difficult questions. Some suggest that the parish could tap into a FEMA grant program to buy out the most flood-prone properties on the condition that they never be developed again. Others say it is foolish to maintain a continuous 100-mile levee, that the parish should be converted into a string of islands of development with marshland between them. Ultimately, it may be up to individual landowners to decide if they want to roll the dice...
Effects of the flood ranged from property damage to rescheduled LSATs. Some evacuees spent the morning following the deluge camping out in friends’ rooms, while others made do with sleeping on tabletops in the dining hall...
Conditions in the wake of the flood have been anything but ideal—even for Cabot residents with “inhabitable” rooms...
...unexpected flood forced many to change their weekend plans drastically. Senior parties scheduled to be hosted in the affected rooms were delayed or relocated, and some students even had to reschedule their LSATs...