Residents of Pinhook, Missouri, had no official warning on May 2, 2011, that the Army Corps of Engineers was about to flood their town to save historic Cairo, Illinois, about 30 miles up the Mississippi River. (Fair Use Image)
Residents of Pinhook, Missouri, had no official warning on May 2, 2011, that the Army Corps of Engineers was about to flood their town to save historic Cairo, Illinois, about 30 miles up the Mississippi River. (Fair Use Image)