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...sunshine finally puts an end to the rains that have been lashing the upper Midwest and swelling the rivers for the past three months, in amounts often difficult to believe (an inch in only six minutes last week at Papillion, Nebraska). Otherwise the crest could be even higher than predicted; continued rain caused forecasts of the expected maximum height at St. Louis to be raised a full foot within two days late last week. On Saturday, thunderstorms dropped an additional 5 in. of rain on central Iowa. A dangerous second crest could chase the big one down the Mississippi...
Even if the rain and flooding stop completely now, it may take a month in some areas for all that water to flow back into the rivers, through the levees it came around or over. (Yes, through. The water might go back through holes eroded in the levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed...
...debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book...
...Acid Rain Improvement...
Into each person's life a lot less acid rain must fall -- so the Federal Government has reported. According to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey, concentrations of sulfate and nitrate -- two components of acid rain -- declined significantly between...