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Lines of cars lie submerged in overflow water from the Wolf River on McMiller Road near Jackson. Miss on Tuesday, May 2011.
Dan Anderson / EPA
An industrial facility flooded by the Mississippi River crest in Memphis, Tenn., May 10. According to experts the river reached its highest point early this morning and has been flooding roads, homes, and businesses throughout the area.
Jeff Roberson / AP
Floodwater is seen inside a building Monday, May 9, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis residents are waiting for the Mississippi River to reach its peak expected as early as Monday night as the river rises near its highest level ever in Memphis, flooding pockets of low-lying neighborhoods.
Photographer describes covering the floods in Memphis
Associated Press photographer Jeff Roberson said about making this picture:
I’ve been covering floods for The Associated Press for nearly 20 years, and I’ve spent the last two weeks following the latest one down the Mississippi River. You’re looking at one of the latest stops in my journey, a building in Memphis with two signs outside: “Peaches Bar” and “For rent.” I took this picture through a window — really, the hole where a window used to be — while standing in thigh-deep water. The routine was pretty typical for flood coverage: Make sure my tetanus shot is up to date (it is), grab the go pack I keep in the attic, drive to the edge of the water, put on chest waders and walk into the floodwaters, very slowly, being careful not to step into a manhole or off the end of a submerged ledge. If you can call any of that typical.
Charles Smith / AP
Makala Welch helps her grandparents clean up after a tornado touched down in Clinton, Miss., April 15, 2011. Three suspected tornadoes hit Mississippi on Friday, including one that damaged or destroyed dozens of homes and businesses in Clinton and left at least one person with life-threatening injuries.
Residents of Clinton, Miss. begin cleaning up after a tornado touched down
Kids.
Sometimes they do things that define hope and resilience. Click here to read more about the dangerous weather that hit the middle of the country on Friday.Endangered sea turtles dying in high numbers along Mississippi Gulf shore
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A dead sea turtle is carried out of the surf by Donald Tillman April 14, in Waveland, Mississippi. Local turtle activists Donald and Shirley Tillman say they have discovered 19 dead sea turtles in Mississippi in the month of April alone and suspect they are dying due to the effects of the BP oil spill. Endangered sea turtles and dolphins are still dying in high numbers in Mississippi, which continues to be impacted by tar balls and weathered oil. There have been 67 reported sea turtle deaths through April 11. April 20th marks the one-year anniversary of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
The BP spill hasn't been the environmental nightmare many thought, but it's still a nightmare in terms of the impact on locals trying to recover.
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A dead sea turtle is painted red as marked for removal nearly a week after it was pulled out of the surf in Waveland.
Mario Tama / Getty Images
Shirley Tillman looks on next to what she believes is oil mixed with dispersant in Waveland.
Mario Tama / Getty Images
A dying seagull is pulled away from the surf by Donald Tillman in Waveland.
Mario Tama / Getty Images
Activist Shirley Tillman writes a message in the sand next to dead sea turtle after it was pulled from the surf in Waveland.
Ryan Moore / The Hattiesburg American via AP
Unoccupied FEMA trailers burn, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 near Lumberton, Miss. Authorities say at least 162 unoccupied FEMA trailers were destroyed by a grass fire Thursday in south Mississippi's Pearl River County.
Over a hundred FEMA trailers burn in grass fire in Mississippi
The question of what to do with FEMA trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina is complicated by toxic materials found in them. Here's a story about the fire.
Thomas Wells / AP
Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena, left, is given a private tour of the Elvis Presley Birthpace in Tupelo, Miss. from Blair Hill, right, on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011.
Rescued Chilean miner visits Elvis Presley Birthpace
Pena and 32 other miners spent 69 days trapped underground after a mine collapse in Chile. Pena sang Elvis songs to lift the morale of his friends before their rescue in October.
Matt Bush / Hattiesburg American via AP
Jerry McGill jumps over Zac Casper at the Petal Skate Park on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 in Petal, Miss. Temperatures in the some parts of South Mississippi were expected to peak in the mid 40's with a low in the 20's on Monday.
Night passes from the International Space Station
In the second and third images, you can see how development has lined the Nile and Mississippi rivers. (In the bottom image, the Mississippi appears at top, above the ISS, angling upward and to the right from the bright blob of New Orleans).
NASA via EPA
A handout photograph made available by NASA on 17 November 2010 showing Sicily and the 'boot' of Italy, at night with the Mediterranean Sea representing most of the visible water in the view and the Adriatic Sea to the right of centre. Tunisia is partially visible on the left in this night time image shot by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying 354 km above Earth on 28 October 2010.
NASA via Reuters
A night time photograph made by an International Space Station Expedition 25 crewmember shows the bright lights of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt on the Mediterranean coast as well as the Nile River and its delta which stand out clearly in this image released by NASA and taken October 28, 2010.
NASA via Reuters
A night time photograph made by an International Space Station Expedition 25 crewmember shows a view of the northern Gulf coast in this image provided by NASA and taken October 29, 2010. The lights of Mobile Bay, New Orleans and Houston are visible as well as the Interstate Highway 20 cities of Jackson, Shreveport, Dallas and Fort Worth as the view extends northward (left) to Little Rock and Oklahoma City.
John Brecher / msnbc.com
An oak tree that survived Hurricane Katrina in Waveland, Miss., is still there five years later, though the house beyond it has been rebuilt.
Visual treasure hunt
I went to Waveland, Mississippi a couple weeks ago to re-photograph Hurricane Katrina scenes for this video story, and took some 8x10 prints along to help line things up (like clues in a treasure hunt, the prize being views of interesting change). In this case, the print matched, and on a whim I shot this picture using ShakeItPhoto, an iPhone app that mimics a Polaroid camera. I hadn't thought to publish it until a fellow editor suggested we ask your opinion: is it worthwhile to publish cell phone pictures? Does it matter if they've been altered by an imaging app?