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-20110505

NPR 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

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=50442

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Comments

[Sharon Strock]

Let's hope this doesn't occur again, although the flooding seems to keep worsening. Perhaps better measures can improve disaster prevention in the future.