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Mississippi River Swells Dramatically During Historic Rainfall and Flooding
2016-01-05 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A historic flood has sent the highest water levels ever recorded through the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, toppling records set during the devastating floods of 1993. The massive surge follows heavy rains that dropped up to 12 inches of water across the region during a three-day period in late December. A NASA satellite recently acquired this image of flooding along the Mississippi River from January 3rd, which shows floodwaters as blue and vegetation as green. The previous day, the waters...
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Mississippi River crest rolls toward Tennessee; singer's body found
2016-01-05 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tennessee residents girded on Monday for the rapidly rising Mississippi River to crest within days as Oklahoma officials found the body of a country-rock singer whose boat capsized on a lake in late December. The swollen Mississippi and rivers that feed into it wreaked havoc in Missouri and Illinois after late December heavy rain and severe storms brought flooding across several central U.S. states, leaving at least 33 people dead. Officials on Monday found the body of Craig Strickland, 29,...
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Southern US prepares flooding surge as waters move down Mississippi river
2016-01-04 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Southern US states are bracing themselves for major flooding as surging waters that have inundated parts of Missouri and Illinois head south down the Mississippi river. Heavy rainfall at the end of December, the largest deluge since May 2011, has caused the Mississippi, Meramec and Missouri rivers to burst their banks. In some areas, the Mississippi is 40ft above its flood mark, causing at least 24 deaths in several states. Most of the deaths have been caused by people attempting to drive through...
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Residents along Mississippi River prepare for flood crest
2016-01-04 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Officials along the lower Mississippi River prepared on Monday for the swollen river to reach its peak in their area, expecting levees to provide protection after flooding killed dozens of people as it pushed downriver toward the Gulf of Mexico. The crest is currently at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in Cairo, Illinois, and it will take a couple weeks for the water to move to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, National Weather Service hydrologist Jeff Graschel said. The Mississippi River...
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Mississippi needs to spend $375 million more a year on roads, bridges, the MEC said
2015-12-19 12:26:48| Food - Topix.net
Mississippi needs to spend $375 million more a year for 10 years to repair and replace roads and bridges, the transportation infrastructure task force of the Mississippi Economic Council said Friday. "As I drive across our state today, I see first-hand that we are on the verge of losing our competitive edge.
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