Mississippi Flooding 2011 - The worst floods that hit the center of the United States in more than 80 years of soaking homes, farmland and highways Monday (9 / 5), due to overflow of the largest river in the U.S., the Mississippi River, six times the normal capacity.
While patrol officers to investigate the embankment of the river in Memphis Tennessee, which is besieged the water, after the spring floods, a citizen - Daryl Hissong – and his three-year-old son were among thousands of people forced to flee their homes by the water muddy.
They pack up on Sunday and until Monday morning the water had reached five feet inside his home in Millington, Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis, according to the AFP
"They say it may take a month until the water completely receded," said Hissong, as he watched the water that has soaked the trailer up to the roof.
"The water will actually drown it all and I would not have a place to live," he said.
Dikes and natural reef has protected most of Memphis from severe flooding, but those people who live in Mud Island region struggled to stay dry.
Floods have drowned many houses along the edges of Mississippi and on Monday it also breaks down the barrier of sandbags that’s placed around one kondomonium across the street, said AFP.
Mississippi normally has a distance of half mile from Memphis, but now the distance become three miles in many places.
U.S. Army Corps has deployed 150 personnel to inspect the dike in the city day and night to determine if there was a problem.
Many parts of Mississippi reported closed for shipping and U.S. Coast Guard opened the a flood control outside New Orleans to assist cities in the lowlands, while flood water moving toward to the Gulf of Mexico
