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![The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, La14 miles below New OrleansCrevasse created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans wea00739.jpg The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, La14 miles below New OrleansCrevasse created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/https/s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_wea00739.jpg?itok=ftxb01IK)
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, La14 miles below New OrleansCrevasse created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans (Image credit: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas)
Photographer
Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas
Collection
Weather Service
Meteorological Monsters
Floods
NOAA Affiliation
NOS
Keywords
Monsters
Floods