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Description The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 14 miles below New Orleans. The crevasse was created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans.
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Source wea00739, Historic NWS Collection, [1]
Author Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cropped sides to remove edges of magazine page left when photo was archived.. Modifications made by Wisekwai. The original can be found here: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00739.jpg NOAA.

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