Associated Press:  A slow migration unfolded in central Mississippi on Thursday, with people and animals seeking higher ground to escape the flooding from the Mississippi River and its tributaries.  In Louisiana, water poured over a century-old levee, flooding 12,000 acres of corn and soybeans despite farmers' frantic efforts to shore up the structure.  Downstream, officials with the port of New Orleans said the Coast Guard could close the river to ships as early as Monday, halting traffic on one of the world's busiest commercial waterways.  After swamping low-lying neighborhoods in Memphis, TN, earlier this week, the rising water is bringing misery to farmers and small waterfront communities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.  The Corps of Engineers is considering whether to open the Morganza spillway, which would flood thousands of homes and acres of farmland along a 100-mile stretch in Louisiana, but take the pressure off levees and help to protect Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the oil refineries in between.  A decision is expected in the next several days.  In Yazoo City, Mississippi, Brett Robinson drove slowly down River Road near his farm Thursday staring at corn fields that are beginning to look like lakes.  He stopped his truck, pulled out a rifle and shot a wild hog swimming through his corn.  He knows he'll lose his crops to the flood anyway, but that hog could be a nuisance even longer than the water.  "We lose a lot of crops to them," he said, of wild pigs.  We can lose 40 acres a night.  They can give birth three times a year and have 15 in a litter.  In Bunche's Bend, in the northeastern corner of Louisiana, there was heartbreak in the voice of farmer Ted Schneider, as he watched the muddy river creep into his 2,800 acres of soybeans.  "It's kind of discouraging to look out here and think about all that work and money and know it's all going to be gone in a few days," said Schneider, who has farmed the land since 1984.  

My Comments:  The catastrophic tragedies haven't let up in the last several years, and as you can see, they are becoming more frequent, as Jesus told us in Matthew 24.  There are many other scriptures in the Bible which foretell the selective judgment which will come upon all the earth in the last days.  This is it; we live in that generation foretold by Jesus and the prophets.  Are you ready for the coming of the Lord?   It is time to get ready, stay close to Him, watch and wait. The Lord said, "When you see things things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh."