Crystal Goedereis and Chad Banks row through the Riverbend Apartments to check on their home as flood waters swamp the complex. With the Mississippi at flood stage, West Memphis was declared a disaster area by the state as rains continue to pound the Mid-South causing low lying areas to flood.
Chris Vaughn watches the sun set over a swollen Mississippi river from a half swamped bench at Jefferson Davis Park. After weeks of rising to historic levels, the Mississippi River reached a crest just short of 48 feet at the Memphis gauge.
Knee deep in flood water, Crittenden County Sheriff Deputy Darryn Richardson wades through his apartment to retrieve his hunting rifles Wednesday afternoon at the Riverbend Apartment complex where most of the ground-floor units were flooded.
Jumping asian carp feed off the muck filled floodwater off President's Island Tuesday morning. Floodwater has forced many of the island's regular inhabitants like deer and wild turkey to seek higher ground or perish in the raising water.
Mike Lippert threatens to dunk a skittish Lindsey Bass while the pair mess around in the flood water at Tom Lee Park and the sun sets over the swelling Mississippi river.
Michael Bahr joins a group of some 30 Memphis area volunteers as they bag sand Wednesday afternoon at the Pyramid for use on the levies around the city.
West Memphis firefighter Ernest Seard, left, helps unload displaced families at a temporary shelter at the McCarley Family Life Center. after West Memphis was declared a disaster area.
Jack Berryhill pulls clothes and belongings out of his submerged mobile home at the Country View Mobile Home Park on Old Millington Rd. after floodwater water backed up the Wolfe and Loosahatchie Rivers threatening Memphis and the National Weather Service upped it's crest forecast for the Mississippi to 48 feet.
Isha Tynes (10) left, Terrence Brown (11), and Isis Tynes (10) pull debris out of the storm grates on Scottwood St. in afutile effort to drain off some of the flood water threatening his West Memphis neighborhood.
Whitney Jones cleans out cages at the temporary pet shelter set up by the ASPCA on Shelby Oaks Drive for animals displaced by the flooding Wednesday afternoon. The ASPCA housed as many as 200 animals during the crest of the flooding.
Arthur and Penny Burton take their dogs for a potty break wading through the pond that has become of their front yard. The Burtons have watched for the last week as flood waters have creeped up a measuring post in the yard of their Frayser home.
Memphis Police Department officers direct traffic around a closed stretch of Highway 51 near Watkins.
William Byrd Jr. (left) gets a hand from his father William Byrd Sr., left, moving everything they can transport from his trailer at the Country View Mobile Home Park on Old Millington Rd.
Isabella Gordon (13), left, and her mother Robin Gordon get a hand from neighbor Jeremiah Wright Thursday afternoon as they search through flood waters near their West Memphis home for koi that escaped from their goldfish pond when the back yard flooded.