Word: backflow
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...month in some areas for all that water to flow back into the rivers, through the levees it came around or over. (Yes, through. The water might go back through holes eroded in the levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County...