In Acadia Parish, rescuers saved close to 80 people from rising water, including 20 at an oil well.
Dozens gathered Monday to gawk at the rising water levels along a waterfront.
Other farmers in Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas rushed to salvage what wheat they could ahead of the rising water.
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Homes in the Drybridge Street and Wonastow Road areas have been damaged several times by high rising water during heavy rainfall.
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At least 20 levees have failed and cities as far away as St Louis, Missouri, are bracing themselves for rising water.
In Sopchoppy, authorities rescued 57 people from homes surrounded by rising water, said Keith Blackmar of the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office.
Most of the rescues occurred in Galveston County, where rising water and other effects of the storm began hours before expected landfall early Saturday.
This area is the first with a significant population seeing the rising water after this past weekend's opening of four floodgates at the Morganza Spillway.
The Environment Agency warned on Sunday the site could become flooded due to rising water levels on the River Thames between Newbridge and Kings Lock.
On Thursday night, 33 residents from a nursing home in Shipton-under-Wychwood were forced to leave after concerns about rising water levels in a nearby river.
At least 17 of the drowning victims were in vehicles driving into the water or swept away by rising water, the U.S. Commerce Department report said.
Ms Massai said many people had climbed onto roofs and up trees to escape the rising water, then fallen or hurt themselves as they came down.
Rising water temperatures have led to sudden and dramatic changes - with the plankton breeding at the wrong time, and in the wrong place, threatening species like cod.
The Environment Agency says rain and melting snow are expected to lead to rising water levels in rivers in south-west England and has three flood warnings in place.
Walking by a fast-moving creek on the property, the 60-year-old Duluth native pointed out where the polar bear, Berlin, sought to escape rising water by moving to higher ground outside his cage.
But local governments change, and the next incumbents are often tempted to deflect public anger over rising water charges and lost jobs by rewriting or even cancelling the contract with the private firm.
And you can sort of imagine maybe a mother or father trying to, you know, tie this child somewhere high where she could avoid the rising water, even if like the mother or father couldn't save her.
The rising water rendered her car immobile.
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"When we lost telephone service and radio communication, some officers were stranded on their rooftops for four to five days, stranded in areas around the water due to rising water or displaced into other units or divisions, " Riley said.
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"The Tory-led government is out of touch with the pressures facing families - the fact that it has postponed its long-awaited Water Bill means that there will be no action to tackle unsustainable water usage or to help households facing rising water bills for at least another two years, " she said.
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"There has been, over the last few years, some specific planning for the possibility of a significant hurricane in New Orleans with a lot of rainfall, with water rising in the levees and water overflowing the levees, " he told reporters Saturday.
He talked about the extensive interdisciplinary studies, carried out by Cuban scientific institutions, on the impact of the rising sea water level.
The recent years of drought, millions of gallons of water lost through leaky pipes and rising rates of water consumption are all problems faced by the water companies.
The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.
At a corner where the road turned left, away from the ocean, he said he could see the water rising.
The World Economic Forum cited rising demand for water, food and energy as a risk facing the world, in a separate report released Wednesday.
And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.
Sharp water-course rising and flooding are among the main threats of water-produced disasters in the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
By Monday night a temporary barrier around the substation was completed and pumps had been installed to keep ground water from rising.
It would be made by the Welsh sculptor John Meirion Morris and looks like a mythical bird rising out of the water.
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