All were closed by the end of August that year, Mouton wrote. Jim Bradshaw wrote in "Great Flood of 1927" for Know Louisiana, wrote, "the Red Cross provided seed, tools, and rations to farm ...

Analyses by two teams of scientists have linked Louisiana’s Great Flood with climate change ... A team of scientists coordinated through Climate Central’s World Weather Attribution program ...

It had been five weeks since the 1,000-year flood hit southern Louisiana. The flood was caused by a storm ... deemed themselves winners of the “Yard of the Month,” and in Central, in East Baton Rouge ...

Central just received a Class 5 rating from the flood insurance program, up two spots from its current one, city officials said. In 2024, only two governments in Louisiana shared that rating ...

Flood insurance is a tenet of life in water-burdened Louisiana. The low-lying portions ... Climate adaptation is very central to our insurance crisis. Every year is going to be riskier than ...

Thousands were left homeless for weeks, even months. The event, called simply the Great Flood of 1927, would change Louisiana forever. As heavy rainfall in 1926 continued into the spring of 1927 ...