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Hundreds of dams lack emergency plans in rain-soaked South

by Associated Press
| February 20, 2020 8:05 AM

When recent heavy rains swelled a private Mississippi lake and began eroding its earthen dam, Yazoo County Emergency Management Director Jack Willingham was scrambling for a plan.

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