Charles Whitney Sr. saw the floodwater cross the tracks in Kings and reach the front yard of his Davenport Alley home in just four hours on May 7, filling the wood-frame fixer-upper where he and his wife, Carla, had moved into barely a year ago and wanted to renovate.

“I left out that morning and when I went across to go into the street, I saw a little water in the ditch,” Whitney said, stepping gingerly across grass colored gray by the flood and around lumps in his living room floor. Thankfully, he said, they had packed boxes and moved furniture out before it was too late.

“When I got back at 1:30 that day, the water was in the yard,” Whitney said.

On Saturday, two truckloads of cleanup supplies were delivered by the American Red Cross and divvied up for the Whitneys and other flood victims in Vicksburg. Many had seen their homes since the gradual drawback of floodwaters after the river crested May 19, but once was enough for Carla.

“He’s been back three times,” she said. “But, I don’t want to go back.”

The river was 46.7 feet in Vicksburg on Saturday, down four-tenths of a foot. A slow fall has continued since levels topped out 14.1 feet above flood stage, at 57.1 feet. The river is expected to dip below the 43-foot flood mark around June 24, the National Weather Service says in its latest forecast.

Mold mottles walls where water lines streak each room with black, mildewy reminders of a fate Whitney said had spared the house in the 1973 and 2008 floods.