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Casino employees prepare for 100 year flood!

 TBR -- MS

 L. Bradford Editor-in-Chief

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has received initial reports of damage from 48 counties across the state and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Governor Barbour declared a State of Emergency in 39 counties. and Entergy reports over 20,000 customers were without power Wednesday night. There are 11 confirmed storm related deaths and more than 40 injuries reported in the Magnolia State.






Visitors are no longer able to visit the Tunica, River Park, nor ride the Tunica Queen. 

  All across the Mississippi Wednesday night residents are picking up the pieces from that severe weather system that moved through. The driver of an 18-wheeler died near Oxford Wednesday morning after his truck hit a tree that had fallen across Highway 30. Serious damage was left by the severe weather that blew through Oxford. Buildings lost roofs and debris is scattered for miles. Emergency crews began assessing the extent of the damage Wednesday night. The body of a 66-year-old man has been located after an intense search in Marshall County. Authorities said the man went missing early Wednesday morning after driving his vehicle into flood waters. The man's car was found hours later, but he was not inside. Emergency responders located the man's body shortly after 4:00 p.m. off Highway 7, north of Holly Springs. And those same flood waters led to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department having to rescue some residents. They helped people get out of their homes and reach drier areas. Meanwhile, flood waters are raging in Tunica. neighborhoods have been overtaken by water and now the rising Mississippi River is causing casinos there to close. The area's 9 casinos are on staggered closing over the next several days as the water rises.

An AT&T tower was knocked out too, so cell phone use was hampered, leading to the injury of a deputy. As severe weather made its way through Rankin County early Wednesday morning it knocked down huge oak trees. Several casino's within Tunica Co. have hired teams to repel the raging waters of the MS. The Fitz has set up an alternate location, but power is still on and the mighty MS. has not entered the building.  Tunica cut off has been evacuated! As of 5-1-11; MS. waters are expected to crest to potentially 45 ft, flooding levels, adjacent to Memphis, TN; Desoto Co.; MS and Tunica Co., MS.  An Illinois casino worker informed a tunica casino representative; to prepare for the worse, they received several inches of rain! TBR