More trapped energy, more weather with more power: Mild shock and disbelief barely registered in the nation of the most productive, overworked, underpaid, underinsured, vacation deprived, low paid slave/workers in the world, as they watched their bridges fall down, while their taxes, gas and energy costs continued skyrocketing to uncharted realms, as the masses stagnated in unmovable traffic, and government departments threatened to close due to lack of funds - On the bright side, the worldwide corporate 2% greedy guts, individually, had aplenty, more wealth than 30 nations combined, apiece.... irrelevant to who is paying for their errors (as in subprime loans).As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ had more people known that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have had a chance.
13 Dead In Midwest Floods; Hundreds Flee - Floods Rage Through Parts of Central US
13 Dead In Midwest Floods; Hundreds Flee
PIEDMONT, Missouri, March 19, 2008
(CBS/AP)
Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing. Record or near-record flood crests were forecast at several towns in Missouri. Flooding was reported in large areas of Arkansas and parts of southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southwestern Ohio, and schools were closed in parts of western Kentucky because of flooded roads. "We've got water rising everywhere," said Jeff Korb, president of the Vanderbugh County, Ind., commissioners. The weather played havoc with air travel, as more than 500 flights were cancelled today at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Streenivasan. It wasn't even safe on the rails, as flood water under the tracks is the probable cause of a derailment near Vienna, Ill. Two crew members were injured. The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania. After two days, rain had finally stopped falling by Wednesday afternoon in much of Missouri and Arkansas as the weather system crawled toward the Northeast, drenching the Ohio Valley and spreading snow over parts of northern New England. A parallel band of locally heavy rain stretched from Alabama and Georgia to the mid-Atlantic states. Atlanta police closed some downtown streets in 
case the stormy weather knocked down more broken and debris from buildings damaged by Friday's tornado. In Ohio and other areas, the rain fell on ground already saturated from heavy snowfall less than two weeks ago. A foot of rain had fallen in sections of southern Illinois and at Mountain Home, Ark., and Cape Girardeau, Mo., while 6.2 inches fell at Evansville, Ind., the weather service said. Five deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky and a 65-year-old Ohio woman appeared to have drowned while checking on a sump pump in her home. In southern Illinois, two bodies were found hours after floodwaters swept a pickup truck off a rural road. Searches were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water. Searchers in Missouri found the body of Mark G. Speir Jr., 19, on Wednesday about 2 miles downstream from where he was reported swept into a creek the previous evening. "He was going down the creek screaming and hollering," Lawrence County emergency management chief Mike Rowe said. An estimated 300 houses and businesses were flooded in Piedmont, a town of 2,000 residents on McKenzie Creek. Dozens of people were rescued by boat. Outside St. Louis, the Meramec River was threatening towns including Eureka and Valley Park, where Chandra Webster's kids ran bags of toys and clothes to the car while she moved boxes of belongings to the second floor and her husband moved furniture out of harm's way. "It's a lot of work, but it's worth it to save your stuff," Webster, 34, said Wednesday. "In '82 we lost everything when I was a little girl. I don't want to put my kids through that." The Meramec hit a record 39.7 feet that year; flood stage is only 16 feet. A levee completed just three years ago is designed to hold a flood of 43 feet, three feet above the crest forecast for later this week. Valley Park alderman Steve Drake helped fill sandbags. "We've got everybody working together," Drake said. "It's going to be interesting." Gov. Matt Blunt said he was seeking a federal disaster declaration for 70 of Missouri's 114 counties and the city of St. Louis. Widespread flooding in Arkansas had washed out some highways and led to evacuations in some areas, said Tommy Jackson, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. The Highway and Transportation Department reported state roads blocked in 16 counties. Some residents of southern Illinois had to evacuate. In Marion, firefighters in some cases used their own fishing boats to rescued 13 residents of the city's housing authority. Key roads were closed in the Cincinnati area, where water 4 feet deep was reported in businesses in the suburb of Sharonville, police said. Ohio rescue workers were busy helping people out of cars swamped by the flooding. "The biggest problem has been people driving into floodwater," Young said. "There are a lot of stupid people. When that sign says 'Road closed, high water,' that's what it means."
Floods Rage Through Parts of Central US
Floodwaters Rage Through Parts of Central US After Heavy Rains, Killing 2 in Missouri
By BETSY TAYLOR
The Associated Press
PIEDMONT, Mo.
Torrential rains chased hundreds of people from their flooded homes and deluged roads in the nation's midsection Tuesday, killing at least two people in Missouri and sweeping a teen down a drainage pipe near Dallas.
The storm system also grounded hundreds of flights. One control tower at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was briefly evacuated when a funnel cloud was spotted.
The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Ohio, with tornado watches in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Emergency officials in Mesquite, Texas, searched for a 14-year-old boy apparently swept away by floodwaters as he and a friend played in a creek. The friend was able to swim to safety and said he saw the boy get sucked into a drainage pipe, according to a Fire Department news release.
Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. Forecasters said some parts of Missouri could get 10 inches of rain or more before the storms finally stop Wednesday.
Gov. Matt Blunt activated the Missouri National Guard as high water closed hundreds of roads.
About 300 of the 900 homes in Piedmont were evacuated Tuesday when the McKenzie Creek flowed over its banks and caused flooding 2 to 3 feet deep in the center of town. Dozens of people were rescued in about 15 to 20 boat trips.
Up to 30 homes were evacuated in Winona, and some residents of Cape Girardeau were trapped in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. In the town of Ellington, as many as 50 homes and half the businesses were evacuated, officials said.
The body of an 81-year-old man was found in the water at Ellington, about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, said Missouri State Water Patrol Lt. Nicholas Humphrey. A 21-year-old state Department of Transportation worker was killed near Springfield when his dump truck was hit by a tractor-trailer rig as he helped out in a flooded area, state officials said.
Firefighters and police were sent to pull motorists out of flooded roads in and around Springfield, said Greene County Emergency Management Director Ryan Nicholls.
"It's absolutely abnormal to have this much rain and more on the way today and tonight," Nicholls said.
Scott and Marilyne Peterson and their 25-year-old son, Scott Jr., scurried out of their mobile home in rural Piedmont after watching the water rise 3 feet in five minutes. The family had just enough time to grab some essentials, a few clothes and the family dog.
"You didn't have time to worry," Scott Peterson Sr. said. "You just grab what you can and go and you're glad the people are OK."
In Arkansas, authorities searched for a man whose truck was believed to have been swept from a low-water bridge. Authorities found only the vehicle.
Hundreds of people in Lancaster, south of Dallas, were advised to evacuate their homes as the Ten Mile Creek rose. By evening, the creek waters had receded.
At Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, more than half of the 950 scheduled departures were canceled and 100 arrivals were diverted because of heavy rain and winds that briefly reached more than 100 mph, airport officials said.
Federal Aviation Administration officials evacuated the airport's west tower for about 15 minutes Tuesday morning after seeing a funnel cloud. Another was spotted over Lake Lewisville, just north of the airport.
"This is one of the most vicious thunderstorms DFW has seen in quite some time, especially its ongoing intensity," airport spokesman Ken Capps said. "Add in two snow storms in the past two weeks and this has been one of the most unusual early spring weather patterns in years."
By Tuesday night, the FAA said it was accepting about 50 arrivals and departures per hour. Normally, more than 120 flights use the airport's seven runways every hour, the airport said in a news release.
More cancellations were expected Wednesday morning. "All airlines at DFW will be working overnight to rebuild their schedules and delays, and cancellations during this `catch-up' period should be expected," Capps said.
At Dallas Love Field, some 20 Southwest flights were canceled, 20 others were diverted and many other flights were delayed, airline spokeswoman Ashley Rogers said.
Rusk County Commissioner Bill Hale said there were reports of downed trees along U.S. 259 south of Kilgore. He said authorities didn't know if the damage was caused by straight-line winds or a tornado.
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Associated Press writers Marcus Kabel in Springfield; Jim Salter and Christopher Leonard in St. Louis; Chris Blank in Jefferson City; Anabelle Garay in Dallas; and Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark., contributed to this report.
PIEDMONT, Missouri, March 19, 2008
(CBS/AP)
Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing. Record or near-record flood crests were forecast at several towns in Missouri. Flooding was reported in large areas of Arkansas and parts of southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southwestern Ohio, and schools were closed in parts of western Kentucky because of flooded roads. "We've got water rising everywhere," said Jeff Korb, president of the Vanderbugh County, Ind., commissioners. The weather played havoc with air travel, as more than 500 flights were cancelled today at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Streenivasan. It wasn't even safe on the rails, as flood water under the tracks is the probable cause of a derailment near Vienna, Ill. Two crew members were injured. The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania. After two days, rain had finally stopped falling by Wednesday afternoon in much of Missouri and Arkansas as the weather system crawled toward the Northeast, drenching the Ohio Valley and spreading snow over parts of northern New England. A parallel band of locally heavy rain stretched from Alabama and Georgia to the mid-Atlantic states. Atlanta police closed some downtown streets in case the stormy weather knocked down more broken and debris from buildings damaged by Friday's tornado. In Ohio and other areas, the rain fell on ground already saturated from heavy snowfall less than two weeks ago. A foot of rain had fallen in sections of southern Illinois and at Mountain Home, Ark., and Cape Girardeau, Mo., while 6.2 inches fell at Evansville, Ind., the weather service said. Five deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky and a 65-year-old Ohio woman appeared to have drowned while checking on a sump pump in her home. In southern Illinois, two bodies were found hours after floodwaters swept a pickup truck off a rural road. Searches were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water. Searchers in Missouri found the body of Mark G. Speir Jr., 19, on Wednesday about 2 miles downstream from where he was reported swept into a creek the previous evening. "He was going down the creek screaming and hollering," Lawrence County emergency management chief Mike Rowe said. An estimated 300 houses and businesses were flooded in Piedmont, a town of 2,000 residents on McKenzie Creek. Dozens of people were rescued by boat. Outside St. Louis, the Meramec River was threatening towns including Eureka and Valley Park, where Chandra Webster's kids ran bags of toys and clothes to the car while she moved boxes of belongings to the second floor and her husband moved furniture out of harm's way. "It's a lot of work, but it's worth it to save your stuff," Webster, 34, said Wednesday. "In '82 we lost everything when I was a little girl. I don't want to put my kids through that." The Meramec hit a record 39.7 feet that year; flood stage is only 16 feet. A levee completed just three years ago is designed to hold a flood of 43 feet, three feet above the crest forecast for later this week. Valley Park alderman Steve Drake helped fill sandbags. "We've got everybody working together," Drake said. "It's going to be interesting." Gov. Matt Blunt said he was seeking a federal disaster declaration for 70 of Missouri's 114 counties and the city of St. Louis. Widespread flooding in Arkansas had washed out some highways and led to evacuations in some areas, said Tommy Jackson, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. The Highway and Transportation Department reported state roads blocked in 16 counties. Some residents of southern Illinois had to evacuate. In Marion, firefighters in some cases used their own fishing boats to rescued 13 residents of the city's housing authority. Key roads were closed in the Cincinnati area, where water 4 feet deep was reported in businesses in the suburb of Sharonville, police said. Ohio rescue workers were busy helping people out of cars swamped by the flooding. "The biggest problem has been people driving into floodwater," Young said. "There are a lot of stupid people. When that sign says 'Road closed, high water,' that's what it means."Floods Rage Through Parts of Central US
Floodwaters Rage Through Parts of Central US After Heavy Rains, Killing 2 in Missouri
By BETSY TAYLOR
The Associated Press
PIEDMONT, Mo.
Torrential rains chased hundreds of people from their flooded homes and deluged roads in the nation's midsection Tuesday, killing at least two people in Missouri and sweeping a teen down a drainage pipe near Dallas.
The storm system also grounded hundreds of flights. One control tower at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was briefly evacuated when a funnel cloud was spotted.
The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Ohio, with tornado watches in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Emergency officials in Mesquite, Texas, searched for a 14-year-old boy apparently swept away by floodwaters as he and a friend played in a creek. The friend was able to swim to safety and said he saw the boy get sucked into a drainage pipe, according to a Fire Department news release.
Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. Forecasters said some parts of Missouri could get 10 inches of rain or more before the storms finally stop Wednesday.
Gov. Matt Blunt activated the Missouri National Guard as high water closed hundreds of roads.
About 300 of the 900 homes in Piedmont were evacuated Tuesday when the McKenzie Creek flowed over its banks and caused flooding 2 to 3 feet deep in the center of town. Dozens of people were rescued in about 15 to 20 boat trips.
Up to 30 homes were evacuated in Winona, and some residents of Cape Girardeau were trapped in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. In the town of Ellington, as many as 50 homes and half the businesses were evacuated, officials said.
The body of an 81-year-old man was found in the water at Ellington, about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, said Missouri State Water Patrol Lt. Nicholas Humphrey. A 21-year-old state Department of Transportation worker was killed near Springfield when his dump truck was hit by a tractor-trailer rig as he helped out in a flooded area, state officials said.
Firefighters and police were sent to pull motorists out of flooded roads in and around Springfield, said Greene County Emergency Management Director Ryan Nicholls.
"It's absolutely abnormal to have this much rain and more on the way today and tonight," Nicholls said.
Scott and Marilyne Peterson and their 25-year-old son, Scott Jr., scurried out of their mobile home in rural Piedmont after watching the water rise 3 feet in five minutes. The family had just enough time to grab some essentials, a few clothes and the family dog.
"You didn't have time to worry," Scott Peterson Sr. said. "You just grab what you can and go and you're glad the people are OK."
In Arkansas, authorities searched for a man whose truck was believed to have been swept from a low-water bridge. Authorities found only the vehicle.
Hundreds of people in Lancaster, south of Dallas, were advised to evacuate their homes as the Ten Mile Creek rose. By evening, the creek waters had receded.
At Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, more than half of the 950 scheduled departures were canceled and 100 arrivals were diverted because of heavy rain and winds that briefly reached more than 100 mph, airport officials said.
Federal Aviation Administration officials evacuated the airport's west tower for about 15 minutes Tuesday morning after seeing a funnel cloud. Another was spotted over Lake Lewisville, just north of the airport.
"This is one of the most vicious thunderstorms DFW has seen in quite some time, especially its ongoing intensity," airport spokesman Ken Capps said. "Add in two snow storms in the past two weeks and this has been one of the most unusual early spring weather patterns in years."
By Tuesday night, the FAA said it was accepting about 50 arrivals and departures per hour. Normally, more than 120 flights use the airport's seven runways every hour, the airport said in a news release.
More cancellations were expected Wednesday morning. "All airlines at DFW will be working overnight to rebuild their schedules and delays, and cancellations during this `catch-up' period should be expected," Capps said.
At Dallas Love Field, some 20 Southwest flights were canceled, 20 others were diverted and many other flights were delayed, airline spokeswoman Ashley Rogers said.
Rusk County Commissioner Bill Hale said there were reports of downed trees along U.S. 259 south of Kilgore. He said authorities didn't know if the damage was caused by straight-line winds or a tornado.
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Associated Press writers Marcus Kabel in Springfield; Jim Salter and Christopher Leonard in St. Louis; Chris Blank in Jefferson City; Anabelle Garay in Dallas; and Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark., contributed to this report.
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