That was, of course, before yellow fever cursed the city and the low water level exhumed bodies from the ground during flood season. Before establishing the first cemetery, early New Orleans ...

A house capable of floating ... Easy's flood risk, starkly illustrated by the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "I wanted to float it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans ...

A house capable of floating ... Easy's flood risk, starkly illustrated by the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "I wanted to float it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans ...

Officials expect severe weather after New Orleans faced battering flood waters on Wednesday New ... through knee-deep waters and trash cans floating in the flooded streets. Officials in New ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Rita's wind-driven storm ... a FEMA group supervisor who oversees hundreds of people searching for bodies. "We'd like to start where we left off, but my men don't ...

After Hurricane Katrina and the 54 breaches that inundated the New Orleans area, the federal government set out to remake southeast Louisiana’s flood protection. Work was finally completed on ...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans' recently installed real-time flood monitors were meant to serve as an early warning system, helping drivers and city officials avoid flooded streets during heavy ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana ... soil or in poor drainage areas can flood roads too. In the spring and summer, thunderstorms are a common cause. Overflowing bodies of water can also spill into ...

NEW ORLEANS ... flood data and notifications. Tributes paid to model and actress Dayle Haddon, 76, after tragic death from carbon monoxide poisoning 36.6°C no longer the average human body ...

A flood warning was issued Monday for the Mississippi River at New Orleans by the National Weather ... its tributaries and other bodies of water." The state of emergency allows faster access ...

A house capable of floating ... Easy's flood risk, starkly illustrated by the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "I wanted to float it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans ...