Janice Bigham, center, and friends help her sandbag her flooded home in Olive Branch, Ill., near Cairo. Most of Cairo's residents have been evacuated. (Jeff Roberson, AP / May 1, 2011)
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The river level feel two feet so far.
The Army Corps of Engineers activated the first set of explosions (clickc title to entry - thank you) at the Birds Point, Mo., levee late Monday in an effort to save Cairo, Ill., from disastrous flooding.
Overnight, with a thunderous boom and a brilliant flash against a black sky, the corps set off the charges and turned 130,000 acres of farmland into a muddy lake and lowered the Mississippi River by three to four feet.
"[The Cairo levee] continues to be under enormous and unprecedented pressure," said Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh during a news conference Monday....
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The river level feel two feet so far.
The Army Corps of Engineers activated the first set of explosions (clickc title to entry - thank you) at the Birds Point, Mo., levee late Monday in an effort to save Cairo, Ill., from disastrous flooding.
Overnight, with a thunderous boom and a brilliant flash against a black sky, the corps set off the charges and turned 130,000 acres of farmland into a muddy lake and lowered the Mississippi River by three to four feet.
"[The Cairo levee] continues to be under enormous and unprecedented pressure," said Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh during a news conference Monday....
