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Missouri residents pack up and leave as once-rare floods become the new normal
2016-01-08 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: About 100 miles downstream of Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, the small Missouri town of West Alton has spent the past week without almost its entire population as it has been completely swamped by water. William Richter is the mayor of a town he cannot reach. West Altons 525 people were evacuated due to deadly floods that caused the nearby Mississippi river to surge to 38ft high a good 17ft above the flood level. Both roads into the town are still cut off. You can only really...
EPA Orders Barrier for Nuclear Waste at Missouri Landfill
2016-01-04 16:00:00| Waste Age
The Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. read more
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Missouri assesses flood damage, U.S. South still imperiled
2016-01-03 04:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Saturday toured communities ravaged by flooding that killed at least 31 people in several states and forced large-scale evacuations, as the danger of rising waters shifted to Arkansas and beyond. Nixon visited Eureka and Cape Girardeau in eastern Missouri, where floodwaters caused widespread damage, and announced the federal government had approved his request to declare an emergency to help with the massive cleanup and recovery now under way. The governor described...
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Floodwaters sweep away rails in Missouri
2015-12-29 15:52:53| Railroads - Topix.net
NEOSHO, Mo. - At about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, flood waters washed out the track at the back of a BNSF train in Neosho, Mo., causing nine railcars to fall over that carried about 30 intermodal containers.
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Train tracks wash away in southwest Missouri
2015-12-29 13:48:06| Railroads - Topix.net
NEOSHO, Mo. - A stretch of train tracks has washed away and caused at least nine cars to topple onto their sides in southwest Missouri.
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