flooding from the Mississippi River

AZUZ: First up today, some positive news for people dealing with flooding from the Mississippi River, finally. The river began cresting达到顶点 yesterday. That means it reached what experts think should be its highest point. But the cresting was only happening around the city of Memphis孟菲斯市, Tennessee. Now, officials are focusing their concerns on Louisiana and Mississippi. The river isn't expected to crest there until next week.

These floods have some people looking back more than 80 years. This is newsreel footage from 1927. Same river, the Mississippi. It was the worst flooding it had ever seen. 600,000 people forced from their homes. The floods caused the equivalent of nearly $624 million in damages. Those record floods led engineers to build a system of levees堤坝, the barriers designed to hold back floods. They're hoping those levees will keep the flooding happening right now from getting as bad as it did in the 1920s.

Back north in Memphis, experts are saying that while the river might not get any higher, it might not get significantly lower for a while, either.
from cnnstudentsnews.com

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