Man vs. nature in the floods

Joel Achenbach writes in the Washington Post about changes caused by flooding along the Mississippi:

The snakes are out. And the bears. The gators. The jumbo rodents known as nutria. The feral hogs. They seek higher ground as the floodwaters advance, and that can mean the top of a levee or in someone’s back yard. Herds of deer have clumped on tiny islands in an ancient swamp that is becoming a lake.