Pictures of homemade flood levees , built to protect homes in areas flooding from the swelling Mississippi.
posted by gjc on May 20, 2011 - 55 comments

"It's the ultimate Gordian knot ... There is no other system in the world as complex as the Delta." [more inside]
posted by Groovytimes on Apr 23, 2010 - 34 comments

Let the bush bashing begin. Funding for work on New Orleans' flood prevention system slowed to a trickle in 2003, and many people (long before Monday) claimed that was due to the Iraq war. [more inside]
posted by delmoi on Aug 30, 2005 - 181 comments