Southern states next to suffer from floods
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OVERFLOWING rivers were receding in Missouri and Illinois yesterday after flooding swamped communities and forced towns to evacuate, with forecasters warning that rain-swollen waterways flowing downstream could menace southern states.
At least 28 people have died in the US Midwest since last weekend in rare winter floods, mostly when driving into flooded areas after storms dropped up to 30 centimeters of rain, officials said. Flooding in the Midwest usually comes in the spring as snowmelt swells rivers.
Dozens died in US storms that were part of a wild worldwide weather system over the Christmas period which also brought heavy floods and storms to Britain.
More than 100,000 people have had to leave their homes in areas bordering Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains, authorities said last week.
Close to St Louis yesterday, the water level on the Mississippi, the second-longest river in the US, was falling after reaching near-record heights, the National Weather Service said.
The Meramec River, which meanders near St Louis and empties into the Mississippi, broke height records on Thursday, sending a deluge of water over its banks and forcing the closure of two major highways.
Hundreds of buildings have been damaged or destroyed, local officials said.
Towns farther down the Mississippi hoped their levees would resist rising river levels. Southern states such as Louisiana and Mississippi will be affected in coming days, the National Weather Service said.
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