ROLLING FORK, MISS. — Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s 10-acre farm and surrounded the shotgun ...

But while the flooding will offer relief to lower Mississippi states after a year of drought, some Arkansas communities in the flood zone, such as Blytheville, were still making preparations.

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s 10-acre farm and surrounded the shotgun ...