More rain possible in deluged Midwest as flooding breaches levees in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Floodwaters breached levees in Iowa on Tuesday, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations as the deluged Midwest faced another round of severe storms forecast for later in the day.

The sheriff’s office in Monona County, near the Nebraska border, said the Little Sioux River breached levees in several areas. In neighboring Woodbury County, the sheriff’s office posted drone video on Facebook showing the river overflowing the levee and flooding land in rural Smithland. No injuries were immediately reported.

Patrick Prorok, emergency management coordinator in Monona County, described waking people in Rodney, a town of about 45 people, to recommend evacuation about 4 a.m. Later Tuesday morning, the water hadn’t yet washed into the community.

“People up the hill are saying it is coming our way,” Prorok said.

Flooding from major waterways like the Missouri and Mississippi rivers tends to get the lion’s share of attention for the amount of massive destruction it can wreak, such as washing away sections of major interstates. But communities across the rain-soaked Upper Plains and Midwest are also seeing their homes, buildings and bridges ruined by normally unassuming tributaries that have swollen into rushing rivers.

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