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Midwest Storms Threaten Worst Flooding in 15 Years

Posted Jun 11, 08 9:00 AM CDT in US 

(Newser) – As climbing rivers knocked out an Iowa bridge and flooded Illinois farms, communities along the Mississippi River are bracing for what could be its biggest overflow in 15 years, the AP reports. The National Weather Service warned of crests of 10 feet above flood stage and higher over the next 2 weeks. “I've been downtown for 37 years and I have never seen anything like this,” said one Cedar Falls, Iowa, resident.

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Cedar Falls residents sandbag the Main Street Bridge along the Cedar River near downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008.   (AP Photo/David K Purdy)
This aerial photo shows flooded farmland near a levee break along the Embarras River near the Indiana line in southern Illinois Tuesday, June 10l, 2008.   (AP Photo/courtesy Brent Perrott, Lawrence Co. Emergency Management Agency)
Sandbags are piled up in an attempt to protect homes as water from the White River flooded fields and farms near Elnora, Ind., Tuesday, June 10, 2008.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Avery Chamber, 12, jumps from a chair into the flood waters the next to his home in Elnora, Ind., Tuesday June 10, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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