Mississippi River flooding (spring and summer): $2 billion to $4 billion in damage

密西西比河的春季和夏季洪水：损失20亿美元至40亿美元。

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Thousands of residents in several states have evacuated their homes along the Mississippi River as flooding - triggered by rain and melting snow — has reached levels not seen in decades.

随着大雨和积雪融化引发的洪水达到几十年未见的历史高位，在美国几个州里，家住密西西比河沿岸的数以千计的居民已经撤离。

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Southern US states are bracing themselves for major flooding as surging waters that have inundated parts of Missouri and Illinois head south down the Mississippi river.

美国南部各州遭遇严重洪水，汹涌的大水淹没了密苏里和伊利诺斯南部的部分地区，向南流向密西西比河。

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Mississippi River flooding wasn't as pronounced as its water level varies greatly but is typically highest in the spring, so minor flooding is not uncommon.

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Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and an expert on dead zones who didn't participate in the study, said its findings are consistent with climate change scenarios she projects for the upper Mississippi River basin, where flooding caused high algae concentrations two years ago.

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Mississippi River is changing as the flooding is rearranging life on land and overrunning parts of the bayou.

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