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The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins ... almost 20 feet high destroys houses in the immediate vicinity ...

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