NEW ORLEANS — If any people empathize with flood victims along the upper Mississippi, it's folks along the lower Mississippi. Nearly three years ago, Hurricane Katrina took its broadest swipe in the Big Easy, breaching vulnerable levees.

In August 2005, more than 1,500 people died in Louisiana, compared with death tolls in the single and double digits elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. Most died here from water.

People here who have watched on TV recent flooding in the Midwes ...

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