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  • Personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers check sandbags along the shore of the rising Mississippi River
in Natchez, Miss., on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    Miss. flood evacuees spend tedious days in shelter

    In the area of Mississippi hardest-hit by river flooding, evacuees passed time in shelters Wednesday by reading books, praying or smoking cigarettes as officials said they didn't expect waters to overflow a nearby levee that protects thousands of acres of farmland. Cargo was slowly moving along the bloated Mississippi River after a costly daylong standstill.

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Flood victim Vivian Taylor-Wells can only sit and wait Wednesday at a Red Cross shelter in Vicksburg, Miss. She had just spent her second night in the shelter after funds for a motel ran out. She was forced from her home a week ago by the rising Mississippi River.

    Evacuees bide time as Mississippi levee holds

    In the area of Mississippi hardest-hit by river flooding, evacuees passed time in shelters Wednesday by reading books, praying or smoking cigarettes as officials said they didn't expect an overflow at a nearby levee that protects thousands of acres of farmland. Cargo was slowly moving along the bloated Mississippi River after a costly daylong standstill.

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