Roughly 400 Louisiana National Guard members are helping folks evacuate from areas about to be inundated with floodwater released from the Morganza Spillway, according to the Department of Defense. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began opening the floodgates from the Morganza Spillway this past weekend in an effort to keep Baton Rouge and New Orleans from flooding.
But as a result, Reuters reports that thousands of residences and farms in Louisiana's Cajun country could be under as much as 20 feet of water from the swollen Mississippi River.
According to Reuters:
Here's a special report on the hard work of the Louisiana National Guard from the Pentagon Channel:
