Residents and farmers are racing to secure their homes and businesses from what is expected to be historic flooding. The Mississippi River rose toward the highest level ever in Memphis, flooding pockets of low-lying neighborhoods and forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes. As residents waited for the river to reach its peak as early as Monday night those downstream in Mississippi and Louisiana evacuated prisoners and diverted water from the river in an attempt to stave off catastrophic flooding that has a long history of hitting the area. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Buried inside the levee they are constructing to protect catfish ponds of Simmons Farm Raised Catfish near Yazoo City, Miss., these heavy earth movers pile and form the dirt Monday, May 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

 Rogelio V. Solis / The Associated Press
 

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