Documentary Mississippi River
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Excerpts from rising tide by john Barry Pittsburgh, where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio was flooded on january 23rd 25 days later, the Ohio flooded downtown Cincinnati. The crest took 29 days to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. A second flood, at the Pittsburgh on March one took 38 days to go the same distance. The storage capacity of the Mississippi River was filling the Illinois river at Beardstown, Illinois had reached flood stage on september 5th 1926 would remain in flood for 270 30 of the next 307 days on every gauge, from Cairo Illinois to New Orleans, the Mississippi itself reached flood stage early, often the earliest on record It would remain in flood for as long as 153 consecutive days.