Midwest Copes With Floods, East With Heat

It is another soggy day in Iowa City, and most of the Midwest, as areas are declared disaster zones, and eight people are confirmed dead, from the weekend storms, and flooding. There is this story at Yahoo News, and at the bottom is a second link to a local Iowa Press-Citizen story concerning the area flooding that is expected this week:

Temperatures rose toward the triple digits along the East Coast on Monday as Midwesterners braced for more rain that could add to days of deadly floods.

Eight deaths were blamed on stormy weekend weather, most in the Midwest. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle declared an emergency for 29 counties and President Bush late Sunday declared a major disaster in 29 Indiana counties. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said nearly a third of his state's 99 counties need federal help.

Flooding was expected to be a continuing problem this week in the Midwest as rivers are swollen with the runoff from heavy weekend rainfall, topped by the 11 inches that fell Saturday in Indiana.

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