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Faith gets grant for community storm shelter
• FAITH, S.D. (AP) -- The City of Faith is using an $800,000 grant to build a community safe room that can serve as a public shelter against severe storms.
• The funding comes through the Hazard Mitigation Grant program.
• The city's application for the safe room notes that Faith typically experiences at least two extreme wind events a year. In the past 30 years, storms have caused 40 reported injuries and more than $8 million in property and crop damage.
• Citizens in the past took shelter at the school, but that structure was condemned in 2004 and torn town. The new shelter with be able to hold 875 people.
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More rain expected for already swollen rivers
JIM SALTER,Associated Press
JIM SUHR,Associated Press
• CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- Communities along the Mississippi River and other Midwestern waterways are vigilantly eyeing -- and in some cases hastily fortifying -- makeshift levees to hold back floodwaters that meteorologists say could worsen or be prolonged by looming storms.
• An inch of rain was expected to fall from Oklahoma to Michigan through Tuesday, a new drenching that led the National Weather Service to heighten the forecast crest of some stretches of rivers while blunting the progress of other waterways' slow retreat.
• Mark Fuchs, a National Weather Service hydrologist, said the latest dousing could be especially troubling for communities along the Illinois River, which he said is headed for record crests.
• "Along the Illinois, any increase is going to be cause for alarm, adding to their uncertainty and, in some cases, misery," he said late Monday afternoon.
• Last week's downpours brought on sudden flooding throughout the Midwest, and high water is blamed for at least three deaths. Authorities in LaSalle, Ill., spent Monday searching for a woman whose van was spotted days earlier near a bridge, and a 12-year-old boy was in critical condition after being pulled from a river near Leadwood, Mo., about 65 miles south of St. Louis.
• The additional rain isn't welcome news in Clarksville, Mo., about 70 miles north of St. Louis.
• Days after bused-in prison inmates worked shoulder to shoulder with the National Guard and local volunteers to build a makeshift floodwall of sand and (Continued on page 18)
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