Memphis Corps District warily eyeing rivers and skies
The Wolf River is flooding north of Wolf River Boulevard, west of Germantown Road, as seen on the north side of Mid-South ENT and Sutherland Cardiology Clinic in Germantown’s medical district. (Abigail Warren/The Daily Memphian)
The four days of intense rainfall set a new record for the period in Memphis and raised the level of the Mississippi River at Memphis dramatically.
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