Plaquemines Parish: One man's misery, complete with armadillo, in Plaquemines Parish

State crews intentionally breached the back levee Thursday that had been trapping more than a dozen feet of Hurricane Isaac's flood waters in Plaquemines Parish. The breach is expected to drain most of the roughly 8 feet ofBy Mike Esterl. In Plaquemines Parish, a rural area with about 25,000 residents south of New Orleans, officials ordered new evacuations as Isaac's slow movement and heavy rains put more neighborhoods at risk. “We've never seen anything like this, notTwo of

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