Missouri's Black River levee Fails

    Record or near-record flooding is expected along stretched of the Ohio and Mississippi River in the coming days as the central and south-central US struggles to cope with the peak of the 2011 flood season. Poplar Bluff, Mo., which has received some 15 inches of rain over the past four days, levees protecting the town from floods on the Black Rive have been breached or overrtopped in several places, forcing the evautation of some 1,000 people.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0426/Missouri-s-Black-River-levee-fails.-Where-floodwaters-could-hit-next