“If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break. When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.”
So go the lyrics in the blues classic, “When the Levee Breaks” about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Later popularized by Led Zeppelin, the song has unfortunately become relevant again with devastating floods striking the region in 2016.
In a span of eight days, more than 7 trillion gallons of water (more than three times as much as Hurricane Katrina) dumped on Louisiana and Mississippi, damaging 40,000 homes and costing local agriculture $110 million at last count. New estimates of catastrophic losses continue to rise.
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