ns a fencing company and was working to move several hundred galvanized metal fence posts. He figured he has five days before the water covers the area.
Dugas says many people view flooding as a fact of life — part of what makes the Atchafalaya basin special. And he had nothing but compliments for the Army Corps of Engineers, even though the decision to open the Morganza spillway has added to flooding in the Atchafalaya basin.
"They're doing it right," Dugas told NPR. "They're doing it a little at a time to give animals a chance to get out. ... It's an abundance of wildlife in that basi16460
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n, but you're going to see them all be coming across here and everywhere else, bears and everything else."
Major Shipping Route Is Shut Down
In another high-stakes decision meant to protect homes and businesses along the Mississippi, the Coast Guard said Tuesday that it has interrupted shipping along the major artery for moving grain from farms in the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area.
Several barges were idled at Na
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