Photos: Mississippi River floodwaters move south
Mississippi River Flooding 1927
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this May 5, 2011 photo, a sign placed by authorities in Greenville, Miss., secures the levee road along Lake Ferguson. This Mississippi River tributary is expected to raise several feet as the water starts to crest. Sightseers have turned the levee into an attraction as they come to see the flooding of the Greenville Yacht Club, left, and the evacuation of the Lighthouse Point Casino. As the crest in the Mississippi River rolls toward the heart of the Delta, the great flood of 1927 is on a lot of minds. On April 21 of that year, an engorged Mississippi River broke through a levee a few miles north of Greenville, sending a wall of water down Main Street, forever changing this area's landscape. Homes were crushed, sharecroppers' farms were carried away, thousands were trapped on rooftops for days and hundreds died. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
