Climate Study: Missouri’s extreme storms bring greater flood risk

Daily Journal: A new report says deluges that in recent years washed out Cedar Rapids, Iowa, forced the Army Corps of Engineers to intentionally blow up levees to save Cairo, Ill., and sent the Missouri River over its banks for hundreds of miles are part of a growing trend. If the findings of a recent study about Midwest climate change is accurate, people in the Parkland might want to invest in a nice raincoat, umbrella and boots -- maybe even two. The kind of deluges that in recent years washed out Cedar......

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