Mississippi River flows over levee, flooding crops
By Mary Foster and Shelia Byrd | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-14 07:26
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Crops and homes along the levee have started to flood, as the water starts topping over the broken levee in Lake Providence, Louisiana, on Thursday. Kita Wright / Associated Press |
BUNCHE'S BEND, Louisiana - Water from the swollen Mississippi River poured over a century-old levee on Thursday, flooding 4,900 hectares of corn and soybeans despite farmers' frantic efforts to shore up the structure. Downstream, officials with the Port of New Orleans said the Coast Guard could close the river to ships as early as Monday, halting traffic on one of the world's busiest commercial waterways.
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