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Flood of 2011 in Lousiana. The Morganza Spillway at Hwy 190 Four Mile Bridge 99% of the time it's dry land under the bridge. However, about every 40 years during a big flood on the Mississippi, they open up the Morganza. Video posted by Jared Mixson |
The La Dept of Highways built the bridge (I believe). My father,Paul J Mayne, was one of the civil engineers in charge of the work. We would drive over it and he was very proud of how level the concrete supports were after so many years in a swamp.
Funny story, my mother used to bring him lunch occasionally and on e she noticed a framed sawing off a board upon which he was sitting. But he was sitting on the part of the board that would fall into the water. My mom said “Paul , you going to let that man saw himself off into the water?” He said “ Yeah, he won’t do it again!”