Flooding Greenville Mississippi year 2011 May 8th buddyhuggins.blogspot.com Rising floodwater stretching from Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico are driving many to higher ground -- and that includes all creatures great and small, fanged, tusked and hoofed. Coyotes, deer and feral pigs are entering Greenville, Miss., in a steady stream from swamped islands, according to a report by the Associated Press. In Tennessee, where gentle waves splash at the base of Beale Street, emergency-management officials are warning the populace about wildlife intruders that are concentrating on dry ground. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is encouraging people to "observe the animals from a safe distance," especially cottonmouth water moccasins, which are in their mating season and thus "more aggressive." In southern Illinois, biologists are monitoring a "mass exodus of critters" from the lowlands, according to The Southern: "The levees are crawling with wildlife," said Rich Whitton, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist. "It's kind of a rally point for all wildlife to be on the levees. Raccoons, opossums, woodchucks and badgers are all up on the levees. "The first place is up on the levee, and then they're going to start moving inland. They could potentially overburden an area and become a public nuisance." How bad is the flooding? Melting snow and rain are pumping up the water levels from Canada to the Dakotas down along the Mississippi River states. Nearly <b>...</b>
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