A slow motion flood on the Missouri River is in progress. The river is already high. Six hundred residents in Hamburg, Iowa, were told Sunday to get out of their homes within 24 hours. And much more water is on the way. The U.S. Corps of Engineers is planning to release huge quantities from the Gavins Point Dam on Lewis and Clark Lake in South Dakota over the next two weeks because unusually heavy spring rains have the lake level dangerously high. Room will be needed to handle the snowmelt from the above-normal snowpack in the mountains.
As a result of the increased releases the…
Flooding starts; west stays dry
