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Upper Midwest Braces for Severe Spring Flooding
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The spring flooding season is quickly approaching in the Upper Midwest, and salesmen in North Dakota are hawking products with names like the Muscle Wall and the Sandbagging Buddy. Emergency workers in Keokuk, Iowa, are planning to barricade the water treatment plant with limestone boulders. And the farmers' cooperative in Quincy, Illinois, is moving grain inland to keep it dry.

Government forecasters say spring could bring disastrous flooding again to the Upper Midwest, and residents in the major river valleys are taking precautions, especially after calamities last year and the year before.

The National Weather Service says heavy snow cover and ground that is already saturated could lead to severe flooding in as little as a few weeks. Exactly how severe will depend on how fast the snow melts and how heavy the spring rains are.

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