When the Levee Breaks
"If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay" Led Zeppelin 1971 Over the summer of 1926, the central Mississippi basin was pummelled by heavy rains. By September, the Mississippi's tributaries in Kansas and Iowa were swollen to capacity. On the morning of Good Friday, April 15th 1927, the Memphis Commercial Appeal wrote, "The roaring Mississippi River, bank and levee full from St. Louis to New Orleans, is believed to be on its mightiest rampage. . . . All along the Mississippi considerable fear...