Yesterday I took this picture of the Mississippi River from a third-story window in the Falls Building:
That’s Mud Island with the Mud Island logo in the background. You can see that at its highest point, the river almost completely covered the top of the word “MUD,” but has since gone down to the point that almost all of “ISLAND” is now visible. That means it’s dropped at least a couple of feet.
Here’s a Memphis Business Journal article on the receding waters.