
May 10, 2011
Vernon Harris looks at the swollen Mississippi River as a riverboat passes by on Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn.
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Mississippi Delta braces for historic flood
The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks and destroy fields of cotton, rice and corn in a flood of historic proportions.

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