Mississippi River waters head toward homes, farmland
By Mary Foster and Melinda Deslatte | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-16 08:04
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Mississippi River floodwaters continue to creep up the Old Train Depot in downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Saturday. The waters from the river and its tributaries are not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press |
MORGANZA, Louisiana - Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate on Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 7.6 meters deep.
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