http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07flood.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23
The river is still a couple of weeks away from cresting in the delta, but experts are predicting all-time records here. As it bulges past Natchez around May 22, it is projected to be several feet above the height it reached in 1927, when the river broke its banks, flooded 27,000 square miles, killed hundreds and displaced thousands.
The flood-control system that arose in the wake of that flood has never been put to such a test.
This is the previous worst, and it will be dwarfed by several orders of magnitude:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
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