Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Mississippi River Pictures
Jeff Roberson / AP
A swing set sits submerged in floodwater from the Mississippi River, Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Clarksville, Mo.
Rogelio V. Solis / AP
A small boat passes along the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Miss., July 26. 2012, in a switch of extremes, the river has dropped to very low levels this summer unlike last year when the river was flooding much of the Delta due to record high levels.
Bill Haber / AP
The USS New York sails down the Mississippi River through the Port of New Orleans in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. The ship was built with about eight tons of steel from the World Trade Center site and is on its way to New York its home port
Dawn Villella / AP
Motorists make their way across the new Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River after a slow procession lead by state troopers and state highway trucks marked the opening of the new bridge in Minneapolis. The old bridge collapsed on Aug. 1, 2007 killing 13 people and injuring 145. )
Rogelio V. Solis / AP
River barge traffic slowly moves down the Mississippi River past the older Mississippi River bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday, May 19, 2011.
Sean Grander / Reuters
Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., May 14, 2011.
Patrick Semansky / AP
Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., May 14, 2011.
Sean Gardner / Reuters
Barges sit along the banks of the Mississippi River as rising water levels have slowed barge traffic along in Vicksburg, Mississippi May 13, 2011.
Scott Olson / Getty Images
Floodwater covers Beale Street at the edge of the Mississippi River in Memphis on May 7, 2011
Patrick Semansky / AP
Workers top a levee with sand bags near the Mississippi River near Morganza, La., Monday, May 9, 2011.
Seth Perlman / AP
The Mississippi River is closed to barge traffic due to flood conditions
U.S. Geological Survey
I-35W Mississippi River bridge before collapse
Miami Herald / MCT / Landov
The NOAA Thomas Jefferson sits at port on the Mississippi River in New Orleans, May 31, 2010.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Floodwater from the Mississippi River flows past the St. Louis skyline.
John Moore / Getty Images
Oil coats beach sand at the mouth of the Mississippi River on May 17, 2010, south of Venice, La.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Visitors explore the riverfront as the Mississippi River flows out of its banks in St. Louis.
AP / The Clarksdale Press Register, Troy Catchings
Marco McMillian, 34, a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., who was found dead on the Mississippi River levee on Feb. 27 between Sherard and Rena Lara, Miss.
AP / Eli Baylis
The towboat Natures Way Endeavor banks a barge against the western bank of the Mississippi River.
Rogelio V. Solis / AP
Barges and their towboats accumulate alongside the Mississippi banks of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012.
Nikki Boertman / AP
In this July 13, 2012, photo, the Memphis Queen riverboat moves up the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tenn.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Downtown buildings are seen in the distance as Interstate 40 passes over the swollen Mississippi River Tuesday, May 10, 2011, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Charlie Varley / Sipa
Workers from the Orleans Levee District attempt to plug leaks in the levee along the Mississippi River where it butts up against the flood walls of New Orleans' French Quarter
Sean Gardner / Greenpeace / Reuters
Lindsey Allen of Greenpeace walks through a patch of the oil spill at the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana
Alex Brandon / AP
The I-510 bridge goes over the Intracostal Waterway with the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.
Sue Ogrocki / AP
Workers add sandbags to a sandbag wall reinforcing a levy holding the Mississippi River from Iowa cornfields.
M. Spencer Green / AP
Ron Frese and Nadine O'Brien take photos across the street from the rising Mississippi River as storm clouds loom.
Alex Brandon / AP
A worker pulls a string of absorbent mops soaked with fuel oil on a bank of the Mississippi River in Jesuit Bend, La.
KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN / AGENCE VU FOR TIME
RAVAGED COAST: A seafood-delivery truck dangles in the ruins of Empire, La., near the mouth of the Mississippi River
Adrian Sainz / AP
A winch and a crane keep a dredging apparatus steady as it sucks up sand from the bottom of a navigation channel on the Mississippi River on Monday.
Scott Olson / Getty Images
"Memphis, Tennessee, May 8, 2011"
Flood waters rise around a home in the West Junction neighborhood where David Rhodes, left, grew up. The city is bracing for the highest Mississippi River crest since 1937.
Photo Essays

A Tragedy in Minneapolis
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Rising Waters
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