Patriot-News: With the tragedy at the Boston Marathon at the forefront of the nightly news, the extreme weather disaster unfolding in the Midwest has received little attention. The Midwest has been on a see-saw ride of extreme drought to extreme flooding recently.
Only a few months ago, water levels on the Mississippi were so low that the Army Corps of Engineers was blowing up rocks on the river bottom to allow barge traffic to continue without scraping bottom. Now they are experiencing record flooding from...