Mississippi Flood: Along The Mississippi, Slow-Moving Disaster Unfolds (via @NPR & @NASA_EO)
Satellite image May 3, 2011 of Mississippi River below Cairo, Illinois after levee breaches. Photo from NASA Earth Observatory (link below)
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/05/136009623/slow-moving-disaster-along-mighty-mississippi&sc=nl&cc=nh-20110505NPR News May 5, 2011: "...The exodus in the Mississippi River Valley crept southward as floodwaters continued to wreak havoc Thursday, forcing thousands from their homes amid some of the region's worst flooding in living memory.The exodus in the Mississippi River Valley crept southward as floodwaters continued to wreak havoc Thursday, forcing thousands from their homes amid some of the region's worst flooding in living memory...."
NASA Earth Observatory: Flooding in Wake of Levee Breach
