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Report: Nebraska, Iowa Sustained Billions in Weather Losses Last Year

Nebraska suffered more than $3.4 billion in losses from disastrous weather last year while the toll was $1.9 billion in neighboring Iowa, according to a federal report. The bomb cyclone in March caused most of the damage, said the National …

Flooding Midwest Rivers Test Fortifications Around Missouri

The flooding Missouri and Mississippi rivers tested sandbag fortifications on June 5 as surging waters making their way downstream rose to some of their highest levels in more than two decades in parts of Missouri. The Missouri River had been …

Missouri, Kansas Residents Rush to Fill Sandbags as Floodwaters Move Downstream

Floodwaters that devastated swaths of Nebraska and Iowa rolled downstream on Thursday, swamping more Midwestern farmland as waterfront communities in Missouri and Kansas hurried to shore up strained levees. Flooding of the Missouri River triggered by last week’s so-called “bomb …

Floods of Five Rivers Head from Midwest to U.S. Industrial South

Brace yourself, U.S. South. The Mississippi River is coming, and so are the Arkansas, the Red, the Ohio and the Missouri. The water on the Mississippi River is already so high that Missouri has closed interstate highways. Governor Jay Nixon …