Bizi,
Lots and lots of hugs.
That's a lot of emotional strain for the people in the Missippi River Basin.
Stay safe. Keep taking care of yourself.
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Here is is a video from someone from Vicksburg Mississippi:
2011 Flood of Vicksburg, Mississippi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHKeFXLNFkk
Those pictures were taken several days ago maybe a week ago. The water is higher now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbiJy4L0L4&NR=1
Flooding 2011 at Greenville, MS River Bridge- Looking South
This guy is narrating and explaining about the large volume of water -- pictures taken almost a week ago. Here is his blog -- he might update it in a few days:
http://buddyhuggins.blogspot.com/201...-ms-river.html
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FLooding worries continue in Louisiana
From CNN on May 16, 2011
Expecting 10 to 15 feet of water.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...iref=allsearch
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...tens-ruin.html
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The National Weather Service had forecast the Mississippi would be passing Baton Rouge at a rate of 1.62 million cubic feet per second on May 22, according to Colonel Ed Fleming, commander of the corps’s New Orleans office. The levees in Baton Rouge are designed to withstand 1.5 million cubic feet, he said.
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The extra water is going through the Morganza into the Atchafalaya basin to spare the state capital and New Orleans, raising the specter of historic flooding in Cajun country during the next 10 days, said the weather service.
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So far this year, the Mississippi and its tributaries have flooded nearly 2.5 million acres in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana, according to state and farm industry sources.
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