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Cities along the Mississippi River brace for record flooding caused by snowmelt
Spring snowmelt has cities along the Mississippi River bracing for historic floods.
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Droughts killed more than 12 million trees in Mississippi and no one has the money to cut them down
Timber farmers are expected to lose $96 million after droughts killed more than 12 million pine tre…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Hurricane Ida knocks out 911 systems in and around New Orleans, leaving thousands scrambling to reach emergency help
New Orleans safety officials told residents to go to their nearest fire station or try to find a po…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Photos and videos show the initial damage and flooding Hurricane Ida is bringing to Louisiana
A man takes pictures of high waves along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Ida nears, Su…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Tropical Depression Claudette triggered tornadoes, flooding, and high winds as it swept through the southeast US
Claudette moved across western Alabama on Saturday night and was predicted to strengthen into a tro…
Michelle Mark
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A second straight year of flooding is threatening another year of crops for Mississippi farmers
The southern Mississippi Delta region, one of the poorest in the US, still hasn't recovered from 20…
Nathan Willis,Barbara Corbellini Duarte,Dylan Bank,Mark Abadi
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An Iowa nonprofit suffered nearly $1 million in flood damages. The woman who runs it shares the long road to recovery.
Flooding is the most frequent and costliest type of natural disaster in the US. A changing climate …
Jacob Zinkula
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Space photos show over 1 trillion gallons of water flooding crop fields in California, and it could mean higher food prices
Tulare County in California is the third largest agricultural producer in the state and now many of…
Rebecca Strong
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The US Army has been dredging the Mississippi River 24/7 for 6 months. The drought crisis that grounded barges and unearthed fossils may finally be over.
Drought along the Mississippi River may finally ease in February, ending a months-long spree of con…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ayelet Sheffey
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Hurricane Ida expected to bring 'extremely life-threatening inundation' to the Gulf Coast, forecast warns
The inundation is expected to stretch from parts of Louisiana to the coast of Mississippi, the Nati…
Yelena Dzhanova
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California's sudden jump from withering drought to violent floods is a warning for the whole world
California isn't just drying out. Paradoxically, it's also getting wetter, as shown by the forceful…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mississippi governor declares a state of emergency as Jackson loses safe drinking water 'for an unknown period of time'
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Jackson's main water system is "on the brink of collapsing" as Missi…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Video shows how a catastrophic tornado nearly wiped out the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, leaving 23 dead across 3 states: ‘The loss will be felt in these towns forever’
At least 23 people were confirmed dead Saturday morning after a tornado ripped through Mississippi.…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Photos show the Mississippi River is so low that it's grounding barges, disrupting the supply chain, and revealing a 19th-century shipwreck
Barges are cutting their cargo, engineers are emergency dredging, and sea water is pushing its way …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says it's 'a great day to not be in Jackson,' where residents went without clean running water for weeks
The city's more than 150,000 residents lost access to clean running water after severe flooding dam…
Sarah Jackson
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Photos show what Tower Rock, a limestone formation in the middle of the Mississippi River, looks like before and after severe drought dropped water levels
Tower Rock has become a popular destination as the Mississippi River's water levels hit record lows…
Hannah Getahun
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Chilling photos and videos show multiple tornadoes in 'outbreak' across Alabama and Mississippi
Tornadoes, wind gusts, and large hail are expected to hit the southeast through Thursday, the Natio…
Kelly McLaughlin
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US flood maps are outdated because the impact of climate change is so overwhelming, disaster expert says
Flooding caused by excess rainfall from climate change means flood maps — which focus mainly on riv…
Alan Dawson
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Flooding in Mississippi is devastating farmers in the worst disaster since 1927. See what it looks like on the ground.
"When the farmers hurt then everyone hurts, from the bank that can't make a crop loan, to the agric…
Barbara Corbellini Duarte
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Flash floods inundate highways in the Bay Area and the Midwest is under winter weather watch as extreme weather hits parts of US to start 2023
A year of extreme weather ended in floods and landslides while 2023 begins with power outages and s…