UPDATE: Anxiety still rising along the flood-swollen Mississippi

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 6:43 p.m. CDT; updated 9:46 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 4, 2011

HICKMAN, Ky. — People along the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries packed their belongings and emergency workers feverishly filled sandbags as high water pushed its way downstream Wednesday in a slow-motion disaster that could break flood records dating to the 1920s.

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