The Mississippi Floods Part 2

After the tornadoes in Alabama Mother Nature is back in the South of the United States. This time it is water. The mythical Mississippi river is rising, rising beyond it’s banks and into the neighbourhoods. Even Memphis is getting it’s feet wet.

Workers fill sandbags into the night in Memphis, Tennessee May 6, 2011. The swollen Mississippi River swallowed up farmland and threatened river towns on Friday, as record amounts of water tested a network of levees and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

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