Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mississippi Flooding in Pictures

35 photos at The Atlantic:





Floodwater engulfs a farm after the Army Corps of Engineers blew a massive hole in a levee at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to divert water from the town of Cairo, Illinois, on May 3, 2011 near Wyatt, Missouri. The diversion flooded about 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland and 100 homes in the state. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

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