These maps illustrate just how severe the Midwest weather is.
From Ohio to Idaho, and Minnesota to Louisiana, extreme weather has hammered America's heartland for weeks. With swollen rivers threatening to spill over levees and dams, and damaging tornadoes ripping through homes, the storms have endangered millions of Americans. Here's a look at what plagues the region., it noted that major rains could combine with heavy snow melts to put more than 200 million people at risk.
, filling the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers to near-historic proportions. In St. Louis, waters reached 42 feet as of Tuesday, and the waters rose to 31 feet in Jefferson City, Missouri, the state capital, which was also hit recently by a tornado.The rains intensified over the holiday weekend, as severe thunderstorms triggered flash flood warnings in five states.
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