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Images show the Mississippi River’s serpentine path in Tennessee and Kentucky

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A large winter storm system that moved across the East Coast over the weekend caused serious floods in Tennessee and Kentucky , as seen in newly released NASA satellite images.

The images show the Mississippi River’s serpentine path in western Tennessee and eastern Arkansas and Missouri .

They also show the rivers and water bodies east of the Mississippiinundated by up to 6 inches ( 15 centimeters ) of rain over a 48-hour period.

A state of emergency was declared in Tennessee after a levee failure near the town of Rives , on the Obion River , which is the overflowed waterway in the top-right of the above image.

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