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NOTE: This entry was written in JUNE 2008, recording a historical event as it unfolded. It does not represent conditions today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather has been unusual, and not in the way that Twelve Mile Circle normally appreciates. Awhile ago I posted a story about a water shortage in the southeastern part of the United States that led to the resurrection of a long standing boundary dispute<\/a> between the states of Georgia and Tennessee. Today I report on the opposite condition, the terrible flooding that has smacked the watershed of the upper Mississippi River so hard these last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Floodwaters Inundate Wisconsin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Flooded Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Regular readers know that I travel fairly frequently, and today I find myself in south central Wisconsin. The rains have stopped and much of the runoff has pushed further downstream towards Iowa and Missouri. Even so, southern Wisconsin continues to drain and leaves behind a a trail of misery and destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I snapped this photograph yesterday (June 21, 2008) in rural Jefferson County, where the tiny town of Milford has intertwined with the Crawfish River more than usual or desired. Trees push above the water and a home soaks within the midst of a normally placid stream that has jumped its banks. Here the river rushes just a couple of feet below the bridge that carries County Road “A” across it, so close it’s scary to even drive across it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n