KROTZ SPRINGS, La. — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub. Most residents heeded the warnings and headed for higher ground, even in places where there hasn’t been so much as a trickle, hopeful that the flooding engineered to protect New Orleans and Baton Rouge would be merciful to their way of life. Read full article > >

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As water from open floodgates creeps closer, La. residents in its path are warned: Get out

More floodgates could be opened today, sending water from the Mississippi River toward homes and farms in an effort to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

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Louisiana sends water into spillway

Engineers are preparing to open the gates of an emergency spillway in Louisiana. It will ease pressure on levees protecting Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but inundate some 3,000 square miles of Cajun country. (May 14) Read full article > >

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Army Corps explains Louisiana spillway opening

The tipping point to open the Morganza Spillway could come as early as Saturday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says. The move diverts water from New Orleans and Baton Rouge but would flood much of south-central Louisiana.

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Morganza Spillway could open as early as Saturday

The ambulance sped toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from the New Orleans airport, overrun with refugees from a drowned city. A mother pregnant with twins screamed from labor pains.

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Born into the chaos