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| Flooding near New Madrid, Missouri: Along a northward loop of
the Mississippi River, near the city of New Madrid, flood water
rested on agricultural fields in early May 2011. Taken from an
altitude of 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the Earth, this
astronaut photo shows muddy water filling a broad swath of cropland
north of the river bend. In this image, north is toward the lower
right. Crops normally carpet the landscape north of New Madrid. This portion of Missouri, however, lies near the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. On May 2, 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers breached a levee near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The move spared the residents of Cairo, Illinois, but filled the floodway. |
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