A broken bridge that once provided access to the Grand Soleil Casino boat hangs loose as the boat is checked for damage and water is pumped from its bowels Monday night after a stray barge struck the vessel. The water was pumped to a manageable level and inspections to insure the vessels sturdiness are to continue today. View photo »

U. S. Coast Guard Master Sgt. Stuart Slesh and electrician Shane Mann tighten a line that was knocked loose by the impact. View photo »

Grand Soleil Casino marketing director Baxter Lee converses with U. S. Coast Guard Master Sgt. Stuart Slesh after a stray barge hit the casino boat Monday night. The vessel took on some water but was pumped to a manageable level. Inspections to insure the boat’s sturdiness are to continue today. View photo »

J.M. Jones Lumber Company employees Curtis L. Jones, Willy Lee Dobbins and Lawrence Floid fill sandbags that will be used along the levees, which protect the mill from the Mississippi River. View photo »

Jennifer Nettles gives a playful nudge to a baby otter she found in the waters of the Mississippi River. View photo »

With the high waters snakes have become a daily problem. View photo »

Wanda Lander drives past flooded homes in Fort Adams Thursday morning. View photo »

Melvin and Ollie Comeaux, top right, and neighbor Wanda Launder talk in what is left of in their driveway on Main Street in Fort Adams Thursday afternoon. View photo »

Pam Brister walks across a makeshift bridge she uses to reach her front porch on Main Street in Fort Adams Thursday morning. View photo »

A teenager is pulled to safety Monday night after he and a friend apparently ran into the river intentionally. The teens were caught in the current and were rescued by three men who happened to be on the scene. The men are using a water hose to drag the teen in. View photo »

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A house becomes an island north of Natchez as the Mississippi River continues to swell. View photo »

Adams County Port and Coast Guard station nearly succumb to the flooding Mississippi River. The river was expected to crest sometime Monday. View photo »

Houses are isolated by the water north of Vidalia as the Mississippi river continues to flood the surrounding area. View photo »

Silver Street continues to be blocked due to high water from the flooding Mississippi River. Access to the now closed Isle of Capri casino is now completely flooded. View photo »

Charles Brown digs a run-off to remove seepage water from a friend’s yard on Louisiana Street in Vidalia Thursday. Pressure from the swollen Mississippi River is forcing the area’s water table to rise, leaving once dry ground saturated. View photo »

Water encroaches on the few feet of space left between the river’s edge and the wall at the rear of the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center Thursday afternoon. View photo »

J.M. Jones Lumber employees Milton Garret, Willie Woodfork and Vernon Randall standby after connecting a sandbag to a backhoe arm for placement on the levee. View photo »

A sand bag flies through the air as James Anderson, William Ross and Curtis Jones pile the bags in the back of a truck. View photo »

Harvey Robinson points out seepage to co-worker Theofic Evans Thursday. View photo »

U.S. Coast Guard fireman Jared Pearce uses a make shift walk made of buoys sinkers or anchors to reach a vessel docked on the Mississippi River behind the Coastguard facility Wednesday. Surrounded by rising waters, the facility is on the verge of becoming an island. View photo »

A view from the steps of an exit on the opposite side of the building. A riverside eatery a month ago, about three quarters of the restaurant now rests a few feet above the surface of the swollen Mississippi. View photo »

Floodwaters from the Mississippi River encroach on the future property of the Lane Company’s casino which will be located at the bottom of Roth’s Hill Road. View photo »

Yates Construction employees Jason McNeel and Robert Peterson review the floodwalls at the site of the future Grand Soleil Casino which will be located just south of the Mississippi River bridges. View photo »

Roth Hill casino site - April 14, 2008 View photo »

Isle of Capri Casino - April 14, 2008 View photo »

Silver Street - April 14, 2008 View photo »

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A barge delivers a small herd of cows to safety Sunday afternoon. The cows were trapped in flooded waters where they could get no food. Crews have been trying to save the cows for the past four days. View photo »

A barge delivers a small herd of cows to safety Sunday afternoon. The cows were trapped in flooded waters where they could get no food. Crews have been trying to save the cows for the past four days. View photo »

Volunteers help C.P. Wallace rescue two calfs in a fishing boat Saturday. View photo »

It may be what happens after the flood that is the biggest concern of Miss-Lou residents and officials. The flooding and current of the river may cause erosion problems for area roads like the one pictured above in north Adams County. View photo »

The washing away of county and city roads, like Carthage Point road, above, are also concerns. View photo »

With water in places it usually isn’t, a large amount of trash can be found floating in the river. Debris is may be one of the biggest after effects of river flooding. View photo »

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A hose running from a pump on Front Street transfers water that seeped up through the drains back to the river. View photo »

The river water covers the street entirely and was approximately a foot deep Friday afternoon. View photo »

The Vidalia trolley passes through the Mississippi River water coming from the drains along Front Street on the Vidalia Riverfront Friday. The river’s high level is pushing water back through drains that were meant to remove water from the Riverfront. Sandbags have been piled on top of the drains to hold slow the reverse seepage of the water. View photo »

Charles Feltus calls in to verify his location while on the Old River. View photo »

Isle of Capri assistant director Jon Moran sets a caution barrel out on Silver Street as water creeps past a sandbag wall Friday. The river is now expected to crest at 56 feet April 15, up from earlier predictions of a 53.5 crest. View photo »

Sandbagging on Silver Street became futile Saturday as the Mississippi River’s height eclipsed existing bags and flooded the entire roadway. The street is closed to through-traffic. View photo »

The Mississippi River completely covers the base of Silver Street. The Isle of Capri has moved closer to land and further south to dock at D.A. Biglane Street. View photo »

Jackie and Charles Freeman leave their Old River house to get concrete blocks to raise their appliances and furniture off of the floor before the floodwaters rise into the house. On Monday, the water hovered a couple of feet below their house. View photo »

Cows stick to the only piece of land they have left as they are left stranded by the floodwaters. View photo »

Water spills through a break in the Lake Mary levee Monday afternoon. View photo »

Floodwaters spill through a break in the levee at Lake Mary south of Adams County Monday. View photo »

Houses at Lake Mary south of Adams County. View photo »

Oil tanks surrounded by high water in south Adams County. View photo »

A flooding scene in south Adams County. View photo »

Houses along Old River in Concordia Parish. View photo »

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A tractor is left stranded on a small island surrounded by high water in south Adams County. View photo »

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Homes in Deer Park that once were protected from the water by stilts have now been conquered by the river. View photo »

Benny Delaune loads sandbags as Pete Dulaune shovels Tuesday afternoon at their hunting camp near the St. Catherine Creek Wildlife Refuge. View photo »

A fuel shed at Vidalia Dock and Storage sits isolated in the company’s parking lot on the Vidalia Riverfront Tuesday. Three quarters of the business’s land lies under water. View photo »

Isle of Capri worker Beth Heidel hands assistant director Jon Moran a sandbag as they heighten the sandbags in front of the boat‘s boundary from the rising water Wednesday afternoon. View photo »

Bob and Helen Cartee, of Spartanburg, S.C., walk along the water’s edge at the Riverview RV Park Wednesday afternoon. The river is now the newest resident of the RV park. View photo »

Travis Morace and Elijah Johnson search the flooded tree line of the Mississippi River for a treeless and deep enough gap to get a barge to a group of stranded cattle Thursday morning. View photo »

Approximately 24 cattle gather on a knoll near Carthage Point Thursday morning. A rescue attempt, by barge, was made but thwarted by trees and waters that weren’t maneuverable. View photo »

Deckhand Adam Purdion stands on the would-be rescue barge. Trees block the path of the barge’s access to the knoll on which approximately 24 cows seek refuge from rising waters of the Mississippi River. View photo »