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Thread #112011 Message #2366100
Posted By: Azizi
14-Jun-08 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Floods in Iowa/Other US Midwest States
Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Iowa/Other US Midwest States
Some might also be interested in this front page dailykos article:
From Bad to Worse by DarkSyde Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 12:15:00 PM PDT
"Residents of Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and surrounding areas are now engaged in a full on fight for their lives struggling against rising water, short supplies, and failing levees"...
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Here's an update [with the author's italics] to that article:
"As several commenter's have correctly pointed out, this is not in the same league as Katrina. In the Midwest we have dozens of city blocks and hundreds of acres affected. Katrina flattened thousands of square miles. That's little consolation to the residents in those flooded regions, but it is an important distinction".