Here's a set of two pictures from Lover's Leap at Hannibal, Missouri: one from November of 2012 when the Mississippi was rather low and another from late April 2013, with a moderately high flood level. See more pictures here.
We're going to finish flood month with a song from New Orleans native Kristin Diable. Released in 2012 on the CD called Kristin Diable & the City, Water Keeps Rising is a soulful, contemporary song about floods that touches on old themes, a tale of the devastation of flooding on the most vulnerable among us.
Heavy rains in late March and April have awoken the Mississippi River from its winter slumber. Here are two pictures from about the same spot at Jones Confluence State Park that show the water level now (April 19, 2013) and when it was at a more typical level (Sept 2006). See more pictures here.
William Elliott Whitmore We're now in the latter half of April, and the Mississippi is letting us know why so many people have written songs about its tendency to flood. A wet spring has revived the river from a drought-induced coma, rising with an urgency that is quickly taking it beyond nuisance flooding
For the next Song of the Day during Flood Month, we advance to 1937, another year of very high water along the Lower Mississippi. While the human tragedy didn't reach the levels of the flood ten years earlier, flood waters covered an area the size of Lake Superior, with communities along the Ohio River hit
It's April, which means the snow is finally melting and the spring rains will be soon be falling and folks along the Mississippi begin to wonder if it's time to start stockpiling sandbags. Mississippi River floods can be as dramatic as they are destructive, which is probably why floods are the most common theme in
