Much of this has received little national attention. “This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care?.” @Guardian #flooding

About half a million acres of land in the rural Yazoo backwater area in Missisippi is underwater, a devastating blow for a poor region where agriculture is the economy’s lifeblood: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/03/yazoo-backwater-mississippi-flooding-months