That Sinking Feeling: How Can Flood Protection Be Improved? [Slide Show]

Rain continues to fall (as it has for the past month) in record-breaking amounts across the middle Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, swelling the two waterways and their tributaries. As some residents evacuate and others await word on whether they must flee, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering its increasingly limited options for containing a major catastrophe already washing away homes and farmland

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That Sinking Feeling: How Can Flood Protection Be Improved? [Slide Show]