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People look on as water from the rising Mississippi River is released through the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco, Louisiana. The Army Corps of Engineers began redirecting part of the Mississippi River through the spillway today to. The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes. But officials were confident the levees would protect the city's world-famous. As neighborhoods along the Mississippi River's flood waters prepare for the worst, many have compared it to the deadly floods of 1927. Sisters Jerlene Johnson and Bernice Townsel said they remember being afraid during the Great Mississippi Flood.. As the Mississippi reaches its high point in Memphis and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees.. HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- Severe rain in the Southeast has forced the closure of several fuel terminals along the Mississippi River and helped raise the price of wholesale gasoline in the Midwest, traders said Monday.. May 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Mississippi River, the largest US river system, is forecast to crest today in Memphis, Tennessee, just below its 74-year-old record, as a bulge of water moves south toward the riverside refineries in Louisiana.. Oswalt seems to have aggravated a prior back injury while helping family and friends who had been affected by the violent weather that battered Mississippi recently. As a result, he was retroactively placed on the disabled list by the Philadelphia. Four Mississippi College baseball players were named to the American Southwest Conference All-Conference teams in a vote of coaches. Spencer Brunson and Stuart Magee earned first team honors, while Clay Crosswhite and Brandon Benton were named to the. Little Junior Parker, a blues singer in the 1950s and 60s, will be honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker was to be unveiled Tuesday at the intersection of New Africa Road and West Bobo Road in the Bobo community of Coahoma. (CNN) -- Experts held out hope Monday that the floodwaters forecast for much of the Lower Mississippi River will exact a minimum toll in lives lost but appeared resigned to the likelihood that property losses would be steep..

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