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ALWAYS TIME TO TAKE A SWIPE"If the levees hold but the water spills over, the water will be almost impossible to remove, considering the pumps will be swamped and shut down. Some of the city's pumps sit in houses made in the 1890s, said Stevan Spencer, the Orleans Levee District's chief engineer. |