Description
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 14 miles below New Orleans. The crevasse was created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans.
Date 1927
Source wea00739, Historic NWS Collection, [1]
Author Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS