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• Levee blasted along Mississippi River to spare Cairo, Ill - USA Today
  24 May 2011 ... The Army Corps of Engineers breach earthen levee Monday night to divert rising floodwaters to Missouri farm fields.
  http://www.usatoday.com/weather/floods/2011-05-02-ohio-mississippi-river-flood..
  
• Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley: Flood Cairo, Illinois To Save ...
  28 Apr 2011 ... A debate over how to stem possible flooding in Illinois and Missouri took an ugly turn this week, as a leading Missouri politician made some crass remarks about the fate of an Illinois town. (Scroll down for video of the ...
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/missouri-house-speaker-st_n_855139.html
  
• Mayor Tells Residents To Leave Flood-Threatened Illinois Town
  1 May 2011 ... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said Sunday that most of the city's remaining residents have heeded a mandatory evacuation order, prompted by river water ...
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/01/cairo-evacuated-mayor-tel_n_855988.html
  
• Mississippi River Flooding Pictures from Cairo, IL - St. Louis News ...
  10 May 2011 ... It's high drama along the Mississippi River these days -- as the river reached near record levels last week,...
  http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/05/cairo_mississippi_river_floo..
  
• Mississippi River near Cairo, IL flooding on April 30, 2011 - YouTube
  30 Apr 2011 ... View from the bluff just south of Wickliffe, KY looking toward the confluence of the Ohio River. Can barely see Cairo in the distance toward the end of the c...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTZ_GciJ2cE
  
• Flooding scenes from Cairo, Ill. and Mississippi County, Mo after the ...
  4 May 2011 ... Scenes from around Cairo, Illinois and Mississippi County on Tuesday after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers breached the Birds Point levee on Monday. The National Weather Service said before the breach, the Cairo level ...
  http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1240052&CategoryI..
  
• Cairo's pulse slows, but only slightly, as flood threat eases
  4 May 2011 ... CAIRO, Ill. • At a shelter for flood victims Tuesday evening, refugees were stunned by news footage of a Missouri farmer comparing the damage that resulted from the destruction of a levee with the loss of a child. "The crops?
  http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/illlinois/article_77b89cd2-7eb..
  
• Mississippi River flooding: After levee blast, threat shifts to Memphis ...
  3 May 2011... blasted a two-mile hole in a Mississippi River levee to relieve water pressure that was endangering Cairo, Ill. But ... An emergency procedure intended to prevent the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from flooding several river ...
  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0503/Mississippi-River-flooding-After-levee-..
  
• Mo. asks court to block levee blast, farm flooding - Weather - msnbc ...
  1 May 2011 ... CAIRO, Ill. — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday to block federal officials from destroying a Mississippi River levee as they try to prevent flooding in a small Illinois city. The Army ...
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42843435/ns/weather/t/mo-asks-court-block-levee-bl..
  
• MO house speaker: Flood Cairo, IL. to save farmland
  29 Apr 2011 ... theGRIO REPORT - Cairo is a town of 2800 people. It is two thirds African- American and nearly 50 percent of its children live below the poverty line...
  http://www.thegrio.com/news/mo-house-speaker-steve-tilley-flood-cairo-il-to-sa..