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Mississippi River Flooding

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Residents look out at the Atchafalaya River as floodwaters approach Melville, Louisiana May 15. Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops, but spare New Orleans and Baton Rouge. (

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A NASA image shows the outlines of heavily flooded agricultural fields on the near Caruthersville, Missouri on the Mississippi river. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Leandra Felton wades through rising floodwaters with items from her home in Memphis, Tennessee May 7. (Reuters)

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Workmen carry a drainage hose along a temporary seawall adjacent to the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., as river floodwaters creep up the flood walls May 14. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)