New Orleans came within a whisker of being destroyed once before. The threat came not from the ocean, but from the Father of the Waters, the Mississippi. In the spring of 1927 the great river flooded on a scale not seen before or perhaps since. (The full story is told in “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. . .” by John M. Barry, a book which cannot be overpraised.)
Before the flood was history an area of thousands of...
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