Photos: Mississippi River floodwaters move south
Kentucky Flooding
Credit: AP
C.L. Jones paddles his way back to shore Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Calhoun, Ky. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said on Tuesday that a decision to breach a levee along the Mississippi River in Missouri is helping to take the pressure off floodwalls in his state. Beshear visited a flood evacuation shelter in Paducah, meeting with residents displaced from their homes near where the Ohio and Tennessee rivers meet. Kentucky officials backed the decision to blow up part of the levee Monday night, hoping it would ease the chance of flooding in the western part of the state, which is criss-crossed with rivers that deposit in the Ohio River and multiple lakes. (AP Photo/Messenger-Inquirer, John Dunham)
