US Floods 2011

11,000 Evacuated In N.D. For Flood Risk

AP | Posted 08.21.2011

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MINOT, N.D. — About 11,000 Minot residents are being ordered to leave their homes even earlier than expected this week as the Souris River gets ...

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Montana Flooding Claims One Life

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 07.24.2011

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Relief teams reached an isolated town on Montana's flooded Crow Indian reservation on Tuesday, as authorities elsewhere in the...

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Mississippi River Floods Seen From Space

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.11.2011

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The Mississippi River crested at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee -- inches shy of the record set in 1937. As the massive surge of wat...

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Feds Consider Blasting More Levees As Mississippi River Continues To Rise

AP | By ADRIAN SAINZ and JIM SUHR | Posted 07.04.2011

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the ...

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Deep South Braces For Surge Of Water Not Seen Since 1927

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 06.28.2011

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NEW ORLEANS -- A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast in coming days to test the enormous levees lining the M...

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Levee Breaches From Flooding In Missouri, More Evacuations Planned

AP | By JIM SALTER | Posted 06.26.2011

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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Floodwaters threatened earthen levees protecting thousands of homes in the nation's midsection Tuesday, rising so fast in some pl...

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