Ivy Lyons, 13, of Metropolis, Ill. assembles sandbags with members of the Eastland Baptist Church Youth Group April 27, 2011 in Metropolis, Ill., a town located near the southernmost point of Illinois on the the Ohio River. Extreme rainfall in the region brought the river level to 61.25 feet above flood stage, breaking the 1937 record of 59.5 feet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a 2-mile wide hole in a Mississippi River levee downstream near Sikeston, Mo., flooding 130,000 acres of farmland in Mississippi County, Mo., in an effort to save southern Illinois towns. The breach forced the evacuation of 200 residents of Missouri’s Mississippi and New Madrid counties.