Townspeople in Elizabethtown, Ill.  build a wall of sandbags to hold back the rising water on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.  The demolition of the levee sent water pouring onto thousands of acres of farmland Tuesday, easing the Mississippi River floodwaters threatening the tiny Illinois town of Cairo. The demolition project did nothing to ease the risk of more trouble downstream, where the mighty river is expected to rise to its highest levels since the 1920s in some parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.     (AP Photo/The Southern Illinoisan, Stephen Rickerl)

Stephen Rickerl / The Southern?Townspeople in Elizabethtown build a wall of sandbags to hold back the rising water Tuesday.

 Stephen Rickerl / The Associated Press
 

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