Rains have moved through our state. Most regions got two days of steady rainfall. Shreveport Bossier recorded 5.52 inches of rain since Friday. This did cause some minor street flooding, but no roads were closed as a result.
As residents along the Mississippi River continued to cope with flooding on Thursday, the river, already at record levels, was set to crest in Vicksburg, Miss. on Thursday morning.
The river was at 57.2 feet in Vicksburg on Wednesday morning, a level well above the previous record of 56.2 feet set on May 4, 1927, according to the National Weather Service. The river was expected to reach 57.5 feet
After word spread that the US Army Corps of Engineers were going to open the Morganza Spillway floodgates last week, residents of south Louisiana faced evacuation.
The pictures of the water sweeping across the land are both amazing... And scary.