Posts Tagged ‘Floods’

Dozens killed in Vietnam floods

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

At least 62 are killed and dozens missing after a tropical storm hit northern Vietnam.

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Floods strip Midwest of valuable topsoil

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Jim Lankford stands in his field of corn crops that was damaged by the June flooding in Martinsville, Ind., on July 23. Now farmers and environmentalists are at odds over what to do with erosion-prone land — take their chances planting crops on marginal land in hopes of good yields and high grain prices, or plant trees, native grasses or ground cover that act as a natural flood buffer.

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Losses sink in in Midwest flooding

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Flood waters cover highway 79 leading into Winfield, Mo, Saturday, June 28, 2008. A makeshift sandbag levee holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday and authorities said part of the town was evacuated. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)Farmhouses appear to float on lakes, and farmers use boats to get to their barns. Businesses are shuttered as flooded roadways cut off customers. Rail lines, factories, river locks are shut down. Homeowners, who watched and waited and prayed, have seen dreams drowned.


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After flood, smelly sandbags remain

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The sandbags will remain in place for now, just in case.When Mayor Jo Anne Smiley looks down Washington Street at the soggy fortress of sandbags protecting her town, she knows it’s a view she will have to get used to.

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Worshippers thankful river is cresting

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Acolytes Katelyn Watts, left, and Bradley Keely, light candles, one for each fear voiced by a parishioner about the Mississippi River floods that have affected their town during services at Centenary United Methodist Church after services Sunday, June 22, 2008, in Louisiana, Mo. The faithful gathered for church services Sunday in towns hard-hit by flooding along the Mississippi River, and many found comfort in word that the river apparently was hitting its high point.

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Floods ease, but cleanup just starts

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - JUNE 21: Julie Ritchie shows off a snapshot in front of her home that her neighbor took of the home as it was surrounded by flood waters on June 12th after the Iowa River inundated it June 21, 2008 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The city is continuing the clean up after the flood.  The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased on Saturday after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the cleanup and counting the costs were only beginning.


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Floodwaters breed hidden dangers

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Houses and businesses are surrounded by flood waters in Louisiana, Missouri June 19, 2008. The $4 billion balance in the federal government's disaster relief fund should be "more than enough" to deal with the flood disaster in the Midwest, the White House said on Thursday, as President George W. Bush surveyed the region's worst flooding in 15 years.  REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES)Now that the waters are beginning to recede after this month’s devastating floods in the Midwest, state and federal officials are warning of a widespread secondary risk from dangerous bacteria and disease-bearing mosquitoes.

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Tentative sigh of relief in Clarksville

Friday, June 20th, 2008

A flag left by members of the Missouri National Guard notes their efforts in pumping water from behind the sandbag wall protecting Clarksville.
Residents of Clarksville, Mo., were growing more confident Friday that an emergency sandbag levee would protect the historic town against the flooding Mississippi River. But they weren’t ready to declare victory just yet, msnbc.com’s Mike Stuckey reports.

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More levees in danger along Mississippi

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The Mississippi River rushes through a break in Indian Grave Drainage District levee north of Quincy, Ill., and south of the town of Meyer, Ill., causing major flooding Wednesday, June 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Quincy Herald Whig,Steve Bohnstedt)At least 21 levees along the Mississippi River are in danger of overtopping over the next few days, the Army Corps of Engineers warned Wednesday.



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