MEMPHIS, Tenn., (Reuters) – The swollen Mississippi River swallowed up farmland and threatened river towns yesterday, as record amounts of water tested a network of levees and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century.
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, distributed evacuation warnings to nearly 3,000 homes, apartment complexes and businesses that could be in the path of the flood waters seen peaking on Monday.
Water lapped onto Beale Street, site of the city’s renowned music scene, and threatened homes on Mud Island, a community