Ready to Break Camp - Floodwaters even with the eaves of his house (background), Fred Fulweiler (right) tunes up his outboard motor for a hasty retreat as Mississippi river continued to rise. Prospects are that Fulweiler and his two flooded-out neighbors will have to flee with their tent to still higher ground. With water already up to the railroad track, engineers forecast the stream would rise another foot.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

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