Photos: Mississippi River floodwaters move south
Mississippi River Flooding
Credit: AP
Wardens keep watch as Inmate trustees from St. Martin Parish Correctional Center make sand bags for residents in preparation of impending flooding from the likely diversion of Mississippi River floodwaters into the Atchafalaya Basin, in Stephensville, La., Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Louisiana�s top agriculture officials says opening a spillway north of Baton Rouge to ease pressure on Mississippi River levees will flood thousands of acres of farm land and should be considered a natural disaster. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
