ST. LOUIS — The flood-swollen Mississippi River is going down, but it will be some time before things dry out.
The waterway has crested from Iowa through southern Missouri and Illinois, but it remained above flood stage at many spots Monday. Hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland are under water and hundreds of roads remain closed. And water woes could linger in some rural areas for weeks after the flood is technically over.
"It will be a while," National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Fuchs said. "That's particularly true behind areas where levees have broken. A lot of that water's trapped and can't get back into the channel."
http://www.weather.com/news/mississippi-river-levels-drop-flooding-remain-20130611
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