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Flooding in our own backyard…

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Residents Flee Homes as Wisconsin Levee Fails

Sept. 26: Flood waters surrounding a farm near Renner, S.D., are shown in this aerial photograph.

AP – Sept. 26: Flood waters surrounding a farm near Renner, S.D., are shown in this aerial photograph.

PORTAGE, Wis. — Some residents in the central Wisconsin town of Portage fled their homes after a levee started to fail, sending water from the rain-swollen Wisconsin River onto a major roadway in one neighborhood and threatening to leave some people stranded in their houses.

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