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It affected the Americas by killing fourteen in Arkansas and as well as least 383 killed across seven states in the preceding storms.

Thousands of homes were ordered evacuated, including over 1,300 in Memphis, Tennessee, and more than 24,500 in Louisiana and Mississippi state.

On May 3, the Army Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo,

Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. The breach moved around 200 residents of Missouri's Mississippi and New Madrid counties, who were made to evacuate after a court approved the Corps of Engineers plan to break the levee. The damage cost about $2.8 billion dollars.

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