"IOWA CITY, Iowa --Even as flood fears eased in Iowa City, the state's south and east prepared for new problems ahead for a string of towns along the Mississippi River. Sandbagging was under way in Burlington, a key rail hub, to build the city's levee system and protect it from the river; 350 people had been evacuated.
Two more deaths were reported, bringing the state's death toll from flooding to five. A 35-year-old man apparently drowned in Iowa River floodwaters near Wapello, and a woman was killed near New London when her stopped car was hit by a National Guard bus involved in flood duty. Two Wisconsin deaths also were linked to flooding during the weekend.
WTF is this? BLACKWATER in IRAQ?
That's a FLOOD-RELATED death, huh?
Elsewhere in the soaked Midwest, Illinois National Guard soldiers had filled about 500,000 sandbags by Monday to help fortify levees along a 15-mile stretch of the Mississippi River near Quincy, while farther south residents were evacuating the river town of Grafton. Flooding had begun to recede in parts of western Michigan....
President Bush will visit the Midwest on Thursday to inspect flood damage, the White House said Monday as the president wrapped up a weeklong trip in Europe....
Oh, so he's all done gallivanting around Europe and fomenting more wars?
Hope he enjoyed himself while the stet of Iowa washed away!
Pfffffffttttt!!!!
They just DON'T GIVE a SHIT about us, readers; otherwise, they would be behaving differently!
The threat to southeast Iowa was already taking shape, though the Mississippi River is days from cresting. State officials girded for serious flooding threats, sending 500 National Guard troops to Burlington.
Oh, so IT AIN'T OVER YET -- not by a LONG SHOT!!!!
More than 400 members of the Illinois Army National Guard were activated to assist with sandbagging in Quincy. About 100 miles up the river in Keithsburg, a community of about 700 residents, water was as much as 5 feet deep Monday morning....
Elsewhere, water receded in parts of western Michigan as the state tried to recover from a second straight weekend of severe weather. The latest flooding followed rain that totaled 11 inches in less than 12 hours Thursday and Friday near Scottville, east of Ludington."
And it gets even worse!
Why the Globe chooses to get this out in an editorial rather than a news article is beyond me.
"IT'S EASY to forget the destructive power of water, until it swallows cars, homes, movie theaters, and hundreds of city blocks, as flood waters have in the Midwest. Long after the dark waters recede, they will have left their mark on the entire nation....
Yeah, and the MSM will HIDE IT like they have done with New Orleans!
What is with the censorship, anyway?
One woman wept when police told her that she should evacuate her home. Others objected in anguish when police refused to let them return to flooded homes that were deemed unsafe.
But nothing about the guy who was arrested for assaulting a "peace officer."
The devastation is confined to the Midwest, but its tremors reach outward. Transportation has been crippled. Roads are closed. Rail lines have been washed out in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Illinois, causing Amtrak to suspend train service. Freight trains have been stalled. On the Mississippi River, barges and tugboats have been docked. The Iowa Farm Bureau estimates that water has flooded nearly 1.3 million corn acres and up to 2 million acres of soybeans...."
This is HUGE, readers!!!!
If I didn't know better (?), I'd almost think this was ALL PLANNED!
The neglect, the destruction, everything.
You know, like some kind of EndGame!!!
