Images: Mississippi River Floods
A crew of workmen carry drainage hose along a temporary seawall adjacent to the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., as Mississippi River floodwaters creep up the flood walls Saturday, May 14, 2011. The waters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries are not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi River floodwaters creep up a sandbag barrier adjacent to the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., Saturday, May 14, 2011. The waters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries are not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A crew of workmen carry drainage hose along a temporary seawall adjacent to the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., as Mississippi River floodwaters creep up the flood walls Saturday, May 14, 2011. The waters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries are not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
In this May 13, 2011 picture, Mississippi flood waters creep up along the banks of the Yazoo Diversion Canal onto the businesses that line its banks in Vicksburg, Miss. Army engineers prepared Saturday, May 14, 2011 to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
In this Friday, May 13, 2011 picture, Mississippi flood waters creep up the flood walls of downtown Vicksburg, Miss. Army engineers prepared Saturday, May 14, 2011 to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi floodwaters creep up the flood walls of downtown Vicksburg, Miss., Friday, May 13, 2011. Mississippi River flooding is expected on both sides of the river along the tributaries that are being backed up onto communities, farm lands and businesses. The water level is not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A Mississippi River tow boat powers up the Mississippi River through the high floodwaters near Vicksburg, Miss., May 13, 2011. The water level is not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
In this Friday, May 13, 2011 picture, Mississippi flood waters creep up the flood walls that commemorate the historic flood of 1927 in downtown Vicksburg, Miss. Army engineers prepared Saturday, May 14, 2011 to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A secondary levee protecting 10,000 acres of farmland at Bunches Bend in East Carroll Parish, La., failed Friday, May 13, 2011, just as Gov. Bobby Jindal flew over the area. The breach of the farm levee wonít affect the mainline levee. Louisiana National Guardsmen took Jindal flood officials and media on an aerial tour of the levee from Concordia Parish north to East Carroll Parish Friday. It was the governorís second aerial tour of northeastern Louisianaís four Mississippi River parishes. (AP Photo/The News-Star, Margaret Croft)
FILE - The Morganza Spillway, center, which allows water from the Mississippi River to divert into the Atchafalaya Basin, is seen from the air in Morganza, La., in this May 12, 2011 file photo. In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday May 14, 2011 and inundate thousands of homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Mississippi River floodwaters continue to creep up the Old Train Depot in downtown Vicksburg, Miss., Saturday, May 14, 2011. The waters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries are not expected to crest in Vicksburg until Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A bird flies past the Morganza spillway in Morganza, La., Saturday, May 14, 2011, as workers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepare to open a bay on the structure, which will allow water from the Mississippi River to divert into the Atchafalaya Basin. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Workers stand near a flood gauge, foreground, while crews prepare to open the Morganza spillway in Morganza , La., Saturday, May 14, 2011, which will allow water from the Mississippi River to divert into the Atchafalaya Basin. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Major General Michael Walsh, center, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, speaks at a news conference in front of the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Saturday, May 14, 2011, before the opening of a bay on the structure, which will allow water to divert from the Mississippi River to the Atchafalaya Basin. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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