Hurricane Rafael is barreling toward Cuba before entering the Gulf of Mexico toward the U.S. Is Mississippi still in the ...

Although more than 1,000 levees were blown out during the Great Flood, Scott was accused of ... Later that day, the levee failed, and the Mississippi River burst through. As a result, a boat ...

The Mississippi River Commission remained confident ... One year later, the Great Flood of 1927 would prove just how wrong they were.

Without the backwater levee, the flood would actually be worse. But it’s bad enough. Peter Nimrod, chief engineer of the Mississippi Levee Board, says the flood will cover at least 500,000 acres ...

which was blossoming in Mississippi at the time of the disaster. Blues artists from Bessie Smith to Barbecue Bob recorded over 30 songs related to the Great Flood of 1927. Though many blues ...

In “The Great River,” the journalist Boyce ... Later in the century, the federal government gave priority to flood control along the lower Mississippi, where wealthy speculators were planting ...

ST. LOUIS — A salvage company operator long tasked with removing a sunken World War II-era naval ship from the Mississippi River ... it broke free in the Great Flood of 1993 and later sank.