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arbilad


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EMtAE9q4i4ySQ0eV_qZefmRQD919B0500" target="_blank">They're evacuating Des Moines. The river is already much higher than it's ever been, and it's expected to get to 32 feet.
They're already evacuating other areas too. The Army corp of engineers has downgraded the rating of the levee system in St. Louis, so people's flood insurance there is no longer good.
There's a lot of suffering to go around.
They're not expecting the rain to stop until possibly Monday.
I would venture to say that they're not suffering from drought.

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Holy Cow! I need to watch the news more!

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I've been keeping tabs on this story since this is where I served my mission. It seems that the area I served in a bit west of Des Moines has had evacuations, and road closures too.

Many of the major rivers in Iowa reached 5 or more feet above record flood levels, which were reached in the last "hundred year flood" about a decade ago.

Cedar Rapids, another big city in Iowa east of Des Moines, has it even worse.

First the swarm of tornadoes, and now widespread record flooding. I sure hope that things will be ok.

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The flooded areas in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Missouri are major farming areas, so this will affect food prices and availability. The governor of Iowa toured much of the area and said that he didn't see a cornfield that wasn't flooded.

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Cocobeem


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Another reason to eat meat "sparingly"...

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Cocobeem wrote:

Another reason to eat meat "sparingly"...


confuse.gif Ok, my congested, nauseous self just can't wrap my brain around what your point might be here, Coco. Could you help a slow sister out?



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