Brenda Hynum, left, hugs her daughter Debra Emery as she watches floodwaters rise around her mobile home in Vicksburg, Miss., on Monday. A sand berm they built around their trailer failed in the night and floodwaters from the rising Mississippi river rushed in. “We tried so hard to stop it. It goes from anger to utter disbelief that this could happen. I just want to go home,” Emery said.
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