soooo we took a trip to the morganza spillway today! i know this video and pictures will NOT give you the full picture of how awesome it is... and you also don't know what it looked like before... but just believe me. it is a LOT of water.
this is the levee protecting morganza from the spillway. yes... the grass at the bottom of the screen and the white sandbags across the water are the top of the levee system around morganza.
this is on the spillway side of the levee. (i think...) charlie said that the mississippi side is ACTUALLY called the spillway, but i'm calling this the spillway because that is where the water is "spilling" to. there usually is not much, if any, water on this side. you can tell from the tree tops how high the water is.
this is on the mississippi river side. you can note the water height by the trees, too.
again riding on the levee... this is how incredibly high the water is. we're not sure, but we think levees are approximately 40 feet high *edit(meaning 40ish feet above sea level. Morganza is approximately 20something feet above sea level and the levees are another 20something feet high making them about 40 feet.)
they are working across the "spillway" aka mississippi river side to sandbag and try to protect the levees.
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- Stephanie
- My best friend Charlie and I moved from the deep South to the great North for me to go to graduate school at the University of Minnesota. I earned a Masters Degree in Public Health Nutrition and Dietetics, and we've moved back to Louisiana. I'm a dietitian who wants to help people improve their quality of life through healthy eating! We love adventures, traveling, food and family. We have two dogs: our corgi Punkin and our lab goofy Rufus. We are very blessed to be in love and to walk through life together!
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