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areas around the city, where they have tributaries, other rivers that typically empty into the mississippi, but because this water is so high that water and those rivers have nowhere to go. we ve been seeing pockets of flooding that s been hitting neighborhoods, putting homes and trailer parks into the water over the past few days. we ve got 300 to 400 people in shelters today, but right now here in memphis, everyone now is going to be watching those levees very closely, every day, to make sure that they hold up as this water sits here, possibly for weeks. in 1937 these levees were nowhere near the height they are today. our levees are typically two to three feet above the project designed flood and that flood design was based on a 37 foot. so, our levees are considerably higher, they re very strong, our flood walls are very good.

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