Where can I find information about the Mississippi River flooding?”
www.greatriver.com/FLOOD.htm offers a great resources like statistics, data, and stories related to flooding along the Mississippi River. ======== Here’s what the site said: Persistent heavy rains are wreaking havoc along rivers in the Midwest. August 07 was considered a 1000 year flood. The damage in early the weekend of June 7th (2008) is even greater! Rains of 7-9 inches from the Iowa border to Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, have resulted in “floods of record” through south western Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. ON JUNE 12, Grant County received an additional 4″ of rain… and the Grant River rose another 8 feet in two hours! The Army Corps of Engineers has alerted commercial barges that they expect to close a 256 mile section of the river, from Fulton, Illinois to Clarksville, Missouri to boat traffic beginning as early as THURSDAY as flooded tributaries continue to pour waters into the Mississi
