Flooding in Wisconsin

Today, the Wisconsin River overflowed isolated hundreds of homes, making it a virtual island. Rains started at the end of last week and have continued steadily through today. Out of the 300 residents living in this town, 75 of them elected to stay behind. Most of them comment in a blase overtone. Linda Levaggi could also be seen sketching the rapid waters, claiming that her house was on high grounds but the river had still never been this high.

In place for protection is a 14 mile levee system, including dikes. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are not overly concerned about this flooding but acknowledge that rivers have indeed broken the 20.50 feet record set in 1938.

Flooding, although not common in Southern California, is a real problem in other parts of America and the world. Floods bring epidemics [especially in 3rd world nations] and many refugees. In fact, this is one of the primary concerns of global warming activists - that the increase in temperature would melt icebergs in the Artic and Antartic thus causing a rise in water level and ultimately flooding into metropolitan cities - Southern California, New York, etc.