 | Mississippi River Levels Being Monitored
The Shelby County Office of Preparedness is closely monitoring Mississippi River levels as it's expected to approach flood stage next week.
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 | Southaven Community Battling Sinkholes, Flooding
A Southaven subdivision is being taken over by sink holes and flooding. Neighbors are fed up, but the city is promising action. Watch Video
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 | Flooding Damages Homes at Hallum Estates
Residents of a DeSoto County subdivision were once again faced with flood damage after Tuesday night's storms. Watch Video
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 | Flood Waters Recede from Hardeman Co. Roads
Flood waters have receded and roads now are open in Hardeman County, but the day started much differently. There was a long list of roads that were covered with water that forced Hardeman County Schools to close Monday. Watch Video
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 | Southaven to Fix Flood Problems Plaguing Neighborhood
Southaven neighbors are tired of dealing with water problems. They say the roads and their homes flood too often. This week the city will start work to fix the issue. For residents, it's long overdue. Watch Video
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 | Changes in Flood Maps Affecting DeSoto County Homeowners
DeSoto County emergency workers are asking everyone to review changes to the area's floodplains. The state just updated flood maps for the entire county. Watch Video
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 | Demo, Cleanup Begins at Flood & Fire Ravaged Mobile Home Park
It's been a dangerous eyesore, now an abandoned mobile home park is finally being cleaned up. Watch Video
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 | Flood Waters Wash Out Roads, Strand Residents
Heavy rains created some dicey moments in Whiteville after flood waters washed away chunks of a county road.
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 | DeSoto Waiting for MDOT Money to Fix Flood Problems
Mississippi's Holly Springs Road cuts through three counties, but drivers often have to be rerouted because of water problems. Watch Video
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 | Year-Old Flood Debris Remains at Abandoned Mobile Home Park
A Shelby County judge told the owners of Countryview Mobile Home Park off Millington Road in Frayser they need to clean up the debris still left after more than 100 mobile homes were destroyed by floodwaters last May. Watch Video
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 | Jindal Warns Locals to Leave Area near Lake Tangipahoa Dam
Gov. Bobby Jindal says even if crews are successful in conducting an intentional breach of an endangered dam threatening a state park in southwest Mississippi, Louisiana locals near the structure should still heed warnings to evacuate.
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 | County Looks to Clean Up after Arson at Blighted Mobile Home Park
Another fire due to arson broke out at the Countryview Mobile Home Park in Northaven. Sunday night a mobile home on the property was set on fire. Watch Video
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 | 2011 an Expensive Year for Weather Disasters
There were a dozen billion-dollar weather events in the U.S. in 2011.
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 | More Time Needed to Rebuild Neighborhoods from Floods
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton says cleanup for flood victims in a southwest Memphis neighborhood is going to take time. Watch Video
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 | Life-Saving Flood Efforts Honored with Prestigious Award
The Shelby County Office of Preparedness was honored today with a rare award for their response during the historic flood of 2011. Watch Video
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 | May Floods Lawsuit Moves Forward against Memphis Mobile City
Fifty families in Frayser are not giving up. They have filed a class action lawsuit against their mobile home park manager in a dispute over flooding during the past two years. Watch Video
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 | Christian Brothers University to Help Evaluate Flooding
Christian Brothers University is helping the city of Memphis evaluate flood conditions.
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 | Fire at Trailer Park Abandoned Since Flood
Fire officials say four mobile homes have burned in a trailer park that has been closed and abandoned since last year's flood.
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 | Victims Still Recovering One Year After Historic Flood
Residents along Old Millington Road in North Memphis continue to recover from devastation left in the wake of last year's flood. Watch Video
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 | Last Year's Flooded Trailers Remain Abandoned
Abandoned, unsafe, and under fire is how many mobile home parks still look like now after massive floods hit Shelby County a year ago. Watch Video
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 | Memphis Neighborhood Blighted by Vacant, Flood-Damaged Homes
There's a small patch of people in southwest Memphis who say their neighborhood is different, and not in a good way. The area was flooded last year when the Mississippi hit near record levels. A once quiet neighborhood is now a decimated neighborhood, and some say city leaders just don't care about them. Watch Video
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 | Heavy Rain Floods Streets, Makes Travel Difficult
Heavy rain has been falling across most of the Mid-South since Saturday and rainfall totals keeps climbing. Watch Video
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 | System to Ease Flood Danger in Memphis in Works
Emergency officials in Memphis are teaming up with federal agencies to create a network of river gauges and weather monitoring stations along Mississippi River tributaries to better monitor the waterways that overflowed and caused hundreds to evacuate their homes last year.
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 | Local Emergency Responders Train for Flood Season
Local city, county, and state agencies worked together quickly and efficiently Thursday to prepare for this year's flood season. Watch Video
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 | New 'Water Watch Network' Will Prepare Shelby County For Next Flood
Seven weather systems and rain gauges will be installed in Shelby County to record real-time data during severe weather and floods. Watch Video
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| Event: DeSoto County Flood Risk Open House
The Mississippi Flood Map Modernization Initiative Team will host a Flood Risk Open House from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, 2012, at the Department of Road Management, located at
2373 Gwynn Road in Nesbit.
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 | Corps to get $802M for Repairs on Mississippi
The Army Corps of Engineers says it's getting $802 million to repair levees and other structures damaged by the historic flooding on the Mississippi River this year - work considered urgent before the next spring flood season starts.
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 | Mississippi Delta Continues Cleanup from Historic Floods
Residents in the Tunica cutoff area continue to rebuild after the historic flood of 2011. Business at the Robinsonville casinos is still slower than normal. Watch Video
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 | A Flood Of Concern In Midtown Memphis
People in Midtown Memphis are tired of wondering if the next rain cloud could mean flooding. Watch Video
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 | Tunica Cutoff Family Returns To Home After Flood
Four months after the Mississippi River flood destroyed their house, one family is home again. Watch Video
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 | Wharton Concerned About Flood Control System
If Memphis were hit with another major flood, could the city survive? Mayor A C Wharton is concerned. Watch Video
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