Mississippi

Concrete safe room protects Mississippi family from tornado

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With a tornado bearing down on their home in rural Mississippi, a husband told his wife to grabs their sons and get into their safe room built from concrete blocks.  It was a fateful decision that likely saved four lives on the day 34 others were lost across the Deep South.    While the rest of … Read more

NASA launches new program to study impact of rising sea levels on the Mississippi River Delta

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NASA announces new program to study flooding in the Mississippi River Delta outside of New Orleans, where 5,000 square miles of land has been lost to rising sea levels since the 1930s NASA will travel to Louisiana to study the impact of rising sea levels  The Mississippi River Delta outside New Orleans has been hit … Read more