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Midwest Flood Death Toll at 16

Posted Mar 21, 08 4:20 PM CDT in US    Most Covered

(Newser) – Storms that caused flooding across the country's midsection have killed 16 people, and bad weather remains a threat, the AP reports. A snowstorm battering Minnesota and Illinois grounded hundreds of flights, and forecasters predicted a 9-inch total. Thousands were forced into shelters as rivers continued to swell; in many states, floodwaters might not crest until the weekend.

Smaller channels were the chief source of floods. Texas authorities recovered the body of a boy who’d been washed down a drainage pipe; a woman watched as one river carried away “large pieces of furniture, dressers, picnic tables" in Arkansas, where two were still missing. Maine, meanwhile, faced a foot of snow and a continued blizzard warning.

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Travis Carroll, left, and his wife Marsha look at their flooded basement as they return to salvage what they can as flood waters recede in Dutchtown, Mo., Friday, March 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Marsha Carroll shows her husband one dry kid's shoe in her flooded home as they try to salvage what they can with flood waters receding in Dutchtown, Mo., Friday, March 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Evacuee Shelia Merchant, left, and Laurie Fails, both of Coon Island, Mo., comfort each other at Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport in Poplar Bluff, Mo. on Thursday March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Dan Gill)
Miami Township fireman Cody Ratliff posts the flood height the Miami River reached, Thursday, March 20, 2008, in Miamitown, Ohio.   (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
A house sits in receding flood waters Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in Piedmont, Mo. This area of southeast Missouri has received heavy rains for two days, resulting in severe flooding.   (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)
Civil Air Patrol member Travis Knowlton, 16, from Boonville, Ind., holds the hose as flood water is pumped out of the sandbagged area between a house and the floodwater March 20, 2008, in Indiana.   (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)
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