Floods in US

Floods in the United States causing 22 dead and threaten millions of people Heavy rains and flooding in central and southern United States. (Sid Hastings / EFE) The flow of the Mississippi will exceed its highest level since the floods of 1993 and even 1973, according to the National Weather Service. The risk of floods will remain the coming days. The areas most threatened by the swollen rivers are Illinois, Oklahoma and Missouri.Measuring social activity ECO WHAT IS THIS? 2 0 EFE. 12/30/2015 - 21: 43h Heavy rains and flooding for days plague United States has already caused 22 deaths and threaten millions of people in central and southern regions, especially in the Mississippi River basin, where large areas They have been evacuated because of the danger that some levees collapse. The authorities are closely monitoring the situation of 19 dams on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, whose margins hundreds of volunteers, aided by the National Guard, rush to pile sandbags to strengthen protections in many places to prevent further flooding. It is estimated that in areas where the authorities have declared alerts by the danger of possible flooding 15 million people, who are closely following the situation of river flow and news on the progress of these works booster live to avoid thousands of homes remain flooded. The flow of the Mississippi surpass in some places its highest level since the floods of 1993El National Weather Service warned that the flow of the Mississippi surpass in some places its highest level since the floods of 1993 and even 1973 because of the storm, was named "Goliath" and has particularly affected the state of Missouri, southern Illinois, eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas. Many populations of these states have been already flooded and other work flat out to control the rising waters, especially in Missouri and Illinois marches are held. The rains have been displaced and affected a strip that runs along the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico, but also focus on the upper valley of the Mississippi and Great Lakes, so the danger of floods will remain the coming days, as they feed the tributaries of the Mississippi. The areas most threatened by rising rivers belong to the states of Illinois, eastern Oklahoma and Missouri, the hardest hit by the storm, as the storm, very strange for this time of year, has led to the issuance of flood warnings in the Carolinas, Georgia and southern Alabama. So far, at least 22 deaths so far, at least 22 deaths have been attributed to the effects of the rains and flooding, especially in road cars registered in flooded areas, which have been forced to close numerous roads and stretches of Interstates. The National Weather Service has recognized that this is one of the times that the floods in the Mississippi River basin have been recorded as early as it will normally take place in spring or summer, due to the combination of the normal rainfall at the time and snowmelt. The Coast Guard has also closed to navigation a stretch of almost ten kilometers from the Mississippi River near the town of San Luis, due to flooding and the danger of strong currents. The governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, has deployed the National Guard to deal with "historical floods" and help emergency personnel, according to a statement his office. The Mississippi River came to a head on Tuesday when the flow began to grow and reached inappropriate levels The situation in the basin of the Mississippi River reached its critical point on Tuesday morning, when the flow began to grow and became unfit levels This time of year, in which the cold and snow tend to predominate in the Midwest. Authorities determined that it was necessary to evacuate the area surrounding the town of West Alton (Missouri) and continued with other towns in the same state throughout the day, according to the National Weather Service. The scenes of men pushing shovels to remove water from their homes and stranded in the mud keep recurring in the states of Illinois, Arkansas and Oklahoma, where hundreds of residents have also been evicted from their homes cars. The governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, said late Tuesday the disaster in seven counties of the state, which involves sending additional aid to supplement already providing local authorities and some NGOs. The rains and resulting floods have been so strong that the state of Illinois had to move Tuesday night a group of prisoners out of state prison, because their cells were at risk of being flooded, according to local media. Also the US President Barack Obama signed Tuesday a declaration of disaster in Oklahoma to send federal aid to this state, heavily beaten by the unusual winter storm that has caused the evacuation of hundreds of residents. 

source: 20 minutes