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Students pitch in with sandbagging

It was dark and hot and everyone was bone tired on Sunday night in Baton Rouge. But they still came, many in truck after truck, to a parking lot on the edge of the edge of the city, all armed with shovels. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_us?a=cIkZ8f"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_us?i=cIkZ8f" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?a=SNLvuL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=SNLvuL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?a=nO89XL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=nO89XL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?a=CLUZZl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=CLUZZl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?a=KbyJVL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=KbyJVL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?a=E4Wkrl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=E4Wkrl" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_us/~4/380207913" height="1" width="1"/>