{"id":424023,"date":"2011-05-14T20:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/14\/key-mississippi-floodgates-opened\/"},"modified":"2011-05-14T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:05:41","slug":"key-mississippi-floodgates-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/14\/key-mississippi-floodgates-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Mississippi floodgates opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"39.320855615\"><span><span>14 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>16:05 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>US army engineers have opened floodgates in Louisiana that will inundate up to three million acres of land in a bid to protect large cities along the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p>The Morganza Spillway opened at 1500 local time (2000 GMT) to ease pressure on Baton Rouge and New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in four decades the level of the Mississippi has forced the floodgate to be opened.<\/p>\n<p>About 25,000 people and 11,000 buildings could be adversely affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13401894\" title=\"Key Mississippi floodgates opened\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Key Mississippi floodgates opened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 14 May 2011 Last updated at 16:05 ET US army engineers have opened floodgates in Louisiana that will inundate up to three million acres of land in a bid to protect large cities along the Mississippi River. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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