With the click of a mouse, you can track the swollen Mississippi River in real time as it plods downstream, overwhelming levees and elbowing beyond its banks.
But you can’t find a complete list of levees built along the upper half of…
About 1 o’clock Friday morning, the Mississippi River will reach the highest level ever recorded at Clarksville, Mo. It will keep rising.
For the next two days, the river will go higher than it ever has been. Businesses from First Street to…
Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city’s…
