The scale of the river is overwhelming - looking upstream towards the Tunica Cutoff and Walnut Bend beyond. At this point there is flowing water stretching from Crowley's Ridge to the other side of Tunica Lake & Flower Lake, almost twenty miles wide! Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey

The scale of the river is overwhelming — looking upstream towards the Tunica Cutoff and Walnut Bend beyond. At this point there is flowing water stretching from Crowley’s Ridge to the other side of Tunica Lake & Flower Lake, almost twenty miles wide! Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey