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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, La
14 miles below New Orleans
Crevasse created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans
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Image ID: wea00739, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Photographer: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
• High Resolution Photo Available
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