05.12.11
Memphis Flooding
The Mississippi River is at or near record flood stage in Memphis.
Hydrograph for the Mississippi River at Memphis, as of 9:45 pm CDT on 11 May 2011, from the NWS
It’s hard for me to believe that I was sitting on the banks of the rising Mississippi River at Memphis just 2.5 weeks ago. I went to Harbortown, a very nice neighborhood on the river that is now sadly flooding.
Mississippi River from Memphis, looking towards the I-40 bridge, on 25 April 2011
Harbortown in Memphis, on the banks of the Mississippi River (these rocks are the same as those just barely in the foreground of the first photo…there is one road that separates the houses from the grassy area)…note also the Purple Martin house! Taken on 25 April 2011