If you're from Shreveport-Bossier, The Red River is just a part of life. Sometimes when something like that is always here, you take its beauty and history for granted...that is until it floods. But The Red has a long and storied history stretching its nearly 1400 miles.
The mighty Mississippi River is swelling up again down in the southern part of our state causing Army Corps of Engineers to begin checking all the levees twice a week. Ricky Boyett, spokesman for the Corps, says that all this is pretty normal for Louisiana in the spring and this week's heavy rains should not necessarily result in an even bigger rise in the swollen waters. "Th...