In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history. The ...

Ninety years ago, the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers — swollen from months of rainfall — burst through levees, sending muddy water into businesses, homes and farmland across Louisiana. Families ...

Nearly 100 years after one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, Louisiana is marking the legacy of the Great Flood of 1927. Anthony Joshua delivers brutal threat for Jake Paul fight, while ...

It was a bad spring for flooding in East Arkansas. April rains were common in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, and that water flowed south, inundating almost 980,000 acres of farmland at an ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. - As the crest in the Mississippi River rolls toward the heart of the delta, the great flood of 1927 is on a lot of minds. On April 21 of that year, an engorged Mississippi River ...

Introduction -- Modern overflow -- A Northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- ...

The Sarto Old Iron Bridge crosses Bayou des Glaises along La. 451 in Avoyelles Parish's Big Bend community near Moreauville. The bridge was built in 1916 and served as an escape route for community ...