The Midwest flooding is quite significant even compared to the Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi River that killed 50 people.
Share on email that's threatening much of the Lower 48 from the Central Plains eastward is also driving "major to historic" flooding in the Midwest, per the National Weather Service.
"There's a Slight Risk of Severe Thunderstorms for parts of Iowa/northern Missouri into northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, southwest Lower Michigan, northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio," it added.
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