SORRY for the harsh title, but that is what the divisive, agenda-pushing is doing on the national page by putting this ON TOP of this!
Need more, readers?!
Also see: "Government "Strike Teams" Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims"
For a whole lot more police state: "Prison Planet"
"Flooding reaches Illinois, Missouri; forces rescues; FEMA cleared water-prone sites after 1993 floods" by Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press | June 18, 2008
GULFPORT, Ill. - The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee yesterday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopter, boat, and four-wheeler as floodwaters moved south into Illinois and Missouri....
This is going to MASSIVE for MONTHS!!
It's the GREAT WASHOUT of the AMERIKAN MIDWEST!
One almost thinks the world is being deliberately configured for those shitstinking globalists, but, aaah... right?
RIGHT?!
Yesterday, the flooding halted car travel over two bridges linking Illinois and Iowa, and threatened to cover areas near tiny Gulfport with 10 feet of water.
"I'm not going back after this one," 83-year-old Lois Russell said as she watched water surround her house near Gulfport. It was the third time she had fled her home because of flooding since 1965.
"It was a good place to raise my seven kids," she said, crying. "I know I haven't lost anything that feels important because I have a big family."
The area was inundated after a levee broke near Gulfport. The details of the rescues were unclear because of discrepancies in the numbers of people involved and the circumstances described by state and local officials. But authorities agreed that boats and helicopters were involved in the efforts....
The federal government bought about a quarter of the homes in Chelsea, Iowa, after the 1993 floods, but most of the 300 residents stayed....
Yeah, I edited out the federal "success" story.
Yesterday, flooding remained far more serious in parts of southeast Iowa, where the Mississippi River had yet to crest.
Uh-oh!!!!
People were urged to evacuate an area near Gulfport as floodwaters threatened about 7,500 acres of farmland. Henderson County Deputy Sheriff Donald Seitz said a major highway could be under 10 feet of water by midday today.
On the Iowa side of the river, a sandbagging operation was moved south to the outskirts of Burlington after floodwaters streamed across state Highway 99."