Inspiring and ingenious: Photos show how residents created their ‘home islands’ during 2011 Mississippi flooding
The Mississippi River floods of 2011 are counted among the calamitous ones with widespread damaging effects that might have caused losses in excess of $3 billion in seven states, while flooding over 3 million acres of farmland in three states. In terms of 'forceful' figures, the peak stream-flow at Vicksburg set a new record by…