Every Oklahoma County under state of emergency as historically wet spring continues

Authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma are hoping 70-year-old levees will hold, according to Axios, and every county in the state has declared an emergency over flooding, CNN reported Tuesday. As many as six people have died in the state over the past few days because of extreme weather, including floods and tornadoes.

Water, water, water everywhere in a historically wet Spring.

This has been a historically wet spring for the South and Central U.S. 

The National Weather Service said that Mississippi River flooding in at least eight states has lasted its longest since the “Great Flood” of 1927, USA Today reported Wednesday. And now, following two weeks of storms in Oklahoma and Kansas, the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas has swollen to record levels, Axios reported Wednesday. 

Read the Nation of Change story by Olivia Rosane - “Every Oklahoma County under state of emergency as historically wet spring continues.”