Tornadoes, Flooding, Yazoo County Levee Failure Threaten Mississippi
A sheriff warned residents in Yazoo County to flee over fears that a would fail as severe weather brought threats of tornadoes and flooding.
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A sheriff warned residents in Yazoo County to flee over fears that a would fail as severe weather brought threats of tornadoes and flooding.
In Mississippi, a number of cities owe their very existence to railways, with towns growing up around outposts that originally began only to serve the trains and rail workers, leading to the rail lines attracting industry rather than the other way around.
The Environmental Protection Agency has restored a 2008 veto of the Yazoo Pumps Drainage Project, which the Trump administration overturned on its way out. This move blocks the project on the grounds that it would damage tens of thousands of acres of protected wetland and violate the Clean Water Act.
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