Vicksburg resident Hoover Youenger told the station his home had several feet of water in it.
"Right now we're moving to the recovery stage, " Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield told CNN.
In Vicksburg, women, children, the elderly everyone and everything endured brutal havoc wrought by new weaponry.
Upriver in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Police Chief Walter Armstrong said 600 residents had been evacuated as of Thursday night.
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Flood stage at Vicksburg, the level at which the river may begin flowing over its banks, is 43 feet.
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Some greeted the cresting floodwaters -- which have damaged hundreds of homes and displaced 2, 000 Vicksburg residents -- with relief.
Inhabitants built a mirror city in the caves surrounding Vicksburg proper caves provided the only available protection from the incessant bombardment.
My family settled into a no-tell motel in a forgotten part of downtown Vicksburg, a neighborhood teetering between antebellum charm and hopeless decay.
Workers have been skimming oily water around the clock near Vicksburg, Miss.
Warren County, which includes Vicksburg, has "several hundred homes that have water" and about 2, 000 residents have been displaced, Sheriff Martin Pace said.
In 1862, the siege of the Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, began when Union naval forces took up position off of the city.
But he said the Mississippi at Vicksburg is challenging for southbound vessels, mostly barges carrying grain and other products from the nation's heartland.
We honor those months of waiting when the decision turns out well: Lincoln pacing as he waited for news from Gettysburg, Vicksburg or Atlanta.
Rusty Larsen, owner of Rusty's River Front Grill in Vicksburg, told CNN affiliate WJTV that his business has picked up some with the floods.
Tugs were holding the ruptured barge at the bank on the Louisiana side of the river, directly across from Vicksburg's Riverwalk and Lady Luck casinos.
In addition to the mainline levee along the river, starting near Vicksburg and extending northeast for more than 20 miles, a so-called backwater levee offers shelter.
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At Vicksburg they must negotiate a 120-degree turn on the meandering Mississippi, then straighten up to pass under the railroad bridge and the Interstate 20 bridge.
On Tuesday morning at least 47 barges and other vessels idled as the river remained closed to traffic eight miles north and eight miles south of Vicksburg.
Our route took us from New Orleans to Vicksburg through Meridian, and you'd have to look at a map to see how insane that is, which, of course, we didn't have.
Residents near Vicksburg counted on a levee for protection.
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The Mississippi River is not expected to return to its 43-foot flood stage in Vicksburg until after June 14, which is 46 days after it climbed out of its banks, said Amanda Roberts, a National Weather Service hydrologist.
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) Barges transporting commerce idled among the nearly four dozen vessels stacked up Tuesday along a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River, denied transit as crews feverishly sought to clean up leaking oil spilled in a weekend barge accident.
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