Another censorse, I mean, updated piece from the Globe web site.
Here is what is in my paper:
"River rises again, along with worries in Mo., Ill." by Cheryl Wittenauer Associated Press June 22, 2008
FOLEY, Mo. -- Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.....
Officials knew it would rise again to expected crests during the weekend, but the amount of the increase caught them off guard....
National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Miller speculated that forecast models simply had been unable to account for the amount of water flowing into the Mississippi from the three rivers that saw major flooding in Iowa -- the Cedar, Iowa and Des Moines rivers.
But they are all right about the global-warming scam.
Sigh!
The flood is a long way from over.... Flooding and widespread storms this month have forced thousands from their homes and inundated towns and cities along rivers in six states, killing 24 and injuring 148 since June 6.
But while the swollen Mississippi has topped or broken through levees for hundreds of miles above St. Louis, the flooding hasn't led to any deaths or significant injuries in Missouri or Illinois...."
So it's not so bad, is it?
"As record river flooding eases, Midwest begins cleanup; Billions of dollars in damages seen as toll mounts" by James B. Kelleher, Reuters | June 22, 2008
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased yesterday after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the toll was still rising as billions of dollars in damage to crops, communities, and infrastructure were assessed....
Skies remained mostly clear and thousands of relief workers could finally exhale....
Hey, can they hear the HAARP?
The flooding and storms blamed for 24 deaths since late May have caused billions of dollars in damage to the heart of the US grain belt, pushing corn and other food commodity prices to record highs and feeding fears of higher world food prices.
Bridges and highways have been swamped, factories shut down, water and power utilities damaged, and the earnings of railroads, farmers, and myriad other businesses disrupted.
Iowa and Illinois have been the hardest hit, but parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Missouri have also been swamped....
No additional levee breaks were reported yesterday. Sandbagging operations were halted in many communities.... Getting back to business as usual will take time.
Small towns and vast stretches of prime corn and soybean acreage have been submerged. Barge traffic remains halted on a 200-mile stretch of the middle-Mississippi River, costing barge carriers millions of dollars a day.
Up to 5 million acres of crops may have been lost to the world's top grain and food exporter. In Iowa alone, crop losses have been estimated at $3 billion.
That's not going to help the food crisis! Almost as if it were planned!
Thousands returning to their homes face a toxic mess.
"We know from past experience that we will find E. coli, petroleum, gasoline, pesticides, household waste," said Thomas Dunne, an official with the Environmental Protection Agency's office of homeland security...."
Welcome home, huh?
