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Flooding along Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Dyersburg, a city in northwestern Tennessee, experienced the worst flooding with over 600 homes and businesses inundated as the Forked Deer River, a tributary of the Mississippi, flowed backwards into southern areas of the city. [21]
Harbor Town was closed to everyone except residents for a short period of time in May 2011 when the Mississippi River reached a level of 48 feet (15 m), 14 feet (4.3 m) above flood stage. [6] A 5-foot (1.5 m)-high emergency levee was built in the afternoon and evening of May 9, 2011, in the west lane of Island Drive.
The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging along the U.S. waterway in the past century, rivalling major floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems dumped record rainfall on the Mississippi River watershed .
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Several hundred-year flooding events occurred in 2011. In North America, the following events occurred on separate rivers and tributaries: 2011 Assiniboine River flood; 2011 Lake Champlain and Richelieu River floods; 2011 Manitoba floods (disambiguation) 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2011 Missouri River flood; 2011 Musselshell River flood ...
That lack of action changed in 2017 when City of Memphis named a special riverfront task force to develop a concept for an engaging, welcoming and seamless five miles of riverfront parks.
A flash flood watch has been issued for parts of the Mid-South as the greater Memphis area faces a round of continued widespread showers and thunderstorms across.
During the 2011 Mississippi River floods, the bridge became dark for about 2 months because the transformers that supply the electricity for the lights were removed to prevent damage to them by flood waters. The bridge was re-lit in a ceremony which occurred on June 21, 2011. Aerial shot of the beam fracture, taken May 11, 2021