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Midwest States Scramble for Flood Recovery Aid
by Cheryl Corley
All Things Considered, August 23, 2007 =B7 For days it has been
waterlogged misery in the upper Midwest.
Flash floods and rivers swollen from persistent thunderstorms have
rushed from their banks, swamping roadways, claiming lives and
damaging hundreds of houses.
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and FEMA
Administrator R. David Paulison visited Ohio to assess the damage in
that state, but throughout the Midwest, thousands of residents are
trying to recover from the relentless storms.
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