Flooding worsens in nation’s midsection!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/19/severe.weather.ap/index.html Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain on the nation’s midsection. Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, and five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky. Searches were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe and in Missouri for a man missing in a creek, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water. The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania on Wednesday. About 10 inches of rain had fallen by Wednesday morning in southeast Missouri’s Cape Girardeau County, where street flooding marooned some residents in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. The weather service said 6.7 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Jasper, Arkansas, and 6.2 inches had fallen at Evansville, Indiana.   I would have been scared to death if something like that would have happened in New York! Wouldn’t you? Of course you would! Lolz!