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...Louis, Missouri, is braced for the worst as it awaits a possible record crest of 49 ft. for the Mississippi River this week. City workers continued to patch up the 52-ft. floodwall protecting the city, but with yet more thunderstorms in the forecast, they are unsure if the structure will hold. Meanwhile, after a five-day partisan battle, the House approved a nearly $3 billion relief package. Republicans insisted that any outlay for relief be matched by spending cuts. At week's end the Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously for a $4.7 billion relief bill...
...unpopular week for weathermen. In almost every corner of the country last week, the news was bad and the forecast was for more of the same. In the Midwest -- where the swollen Mississippi continued to turn streets into rivers and fields into lakes -- the floodwaters reached record heights and just kept climbing. In the South and the East -- where the temperature hit triple digits in many cities -- weather reporters were reduced to frying eggs on sidewalks and reprinting lame jokes ("How hot was it?" asked the New York Post. "So hot, Grant's Tomb had the front door open"). Even...
...billion bd. ft. -- and preserved the second highest number of timber jobs -- a projected 119,500 in the region. That compares with 125,400 jobs in 1992 and 145,000 in 1990. No one disputes that some timber-dependent communities could be hard hit, but FEMAT economist Brian Greber forecast that the job losses would have little effect on the regional economy and negligible impact on the American consumer...
...flood level. In St. Louis they were 10 ft. above. There the precipitation over the past six months has been more than twice the amount in the same period in 1992. The past eight months have been the wettest in Iowa in 121 years of record-keeping. And the forecast calls for more rain...
...National Weather Service says graduates will receive their degrees in a sweltering heat. Today's forecast, as of press time, was for a high of 90 degrees, with a west wind of 10 to 20 miles per hour providing mild relief...