It’s a terrible waiting game for around 350 people evacuated from the camps at Tunica Cutoff.With the Mississippi River 10ft out of its banks and heading towards a crest (peak) of 48ft on the Memphis gauge, county planners and emergency management officials fear that flood waters will enter nearly all the now-abandoned homes on the unprotected side of the levee.
On the bloated Mississippi River, the town of Tunica Cutoff, sits an hour's drive south of Memphis - recent flood waters have done significant damage to the town's housing and has left residents wondering if they'll have a community to return to when the water recedes.
CBS News reports that there are about 300 homes in the small town, and they have all been flooded.
Other swamped communities may rebuild, but Tunica Cutoff may not owing to new housing codes that suggest raising new homes above the 100-year flood plain.
Tunica County, which contains the unincorporated Tunica Cutoff community, has little more than 10,000 residents, and a median family income of around $30,000, about half the U.S. national average, according to Census estimates. Read More
