Photos: Flooding continues along Mississippi River
Mississippi River Flooding
A boat motors through Mississippi River floodwaters past a wall of Hesco baskets that is protecting the Riverside Medical Center in Vidalia, La., Thursday, May 19, 2011. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for the latest word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)