There’s a reason they call it the “Mighty” Mississippi: As heavy rains filled the river’s channel and up lifted water levels above their record heights, the mayor of Memphis has warned people to prepare for a possible “large-scale disaster” that will caused by the flooded river.
Officials have begun building sandbag boundaries around the city and raised levees where water levels have climbed up to the risky heights. Thousands of the citizens have left the city, leaving their homes ,businesses, behind to live in tents and camps at higher grounds.
One woman showed CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman photos of her sank home situated in the north of Memphis. “What’s next? We’ve never had anything like this. We’ve destroyed crops to the water. We’ve never lost a house,” she said. Things haven’t been worse since the Mississippi flood in 1927, the most dangerous in U.S. history, after which engineers built a system of levees and reservoirs that defend some four million people today.
Officials have begun building sandbag boundaries around the city and raised levees where water levels have climbed up to the risky heights. Thousands of the citizens have left the city, leaving their homes ,businesses, behind to live in tents and camps at higher grounds.One woman showed CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman photos of her sank home situated in the north of Memphis. “What’s next? We’ve never had anything like this. We’ve destroyed crops to the water. We’ve never lost a house,” she said. Things haven’t been worse since the Mississippi flood in 1927, the most dangerous in U.S. history, after which engineers built a system of levees and reservoirs that defend some four million people today.
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