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If fixes fail, Iowa town could be left under water - haikuman - 06-07-2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110607/ap_on_re_us/us_missouri_river_flooding
By GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press – 2 hrs 6 mins ago
HAMBURG, Iowa – The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small southwest Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters that could leave the community under several feet of water.
If efforts to protect the town — including building a secondary barrier — fail, part of Hamburg could be under as much as 8 feet of water for a month or more, Fire Chief Dan Sturm said. Flooding along the river this summer, expected to break decades-old records, will test the system of levees, dams and flood walls like never before.
Re: If fixes fail, Iowa town could be left under water - SteveO - 06-07-2011
Not far from where I live in KC. Hopes and prayers go up...