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Flooding Forces Evacuations in Plains

Monday, May 07, 2007 10:17:59 PM
By JOHN HANNA

Steven Herrold rides his bike through swollen Shunga Creek where it flooded a neighborhood in Topeka, Kan., Monday, May 7, 2007. The area received more than six inches of rain overnight and more was in the forecast. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Flooding forced hundreds of people from their homes Monday and blocked streets and highways following a weekend of violent thunderstorms across the central Plains.

Kim Moore, her two sons and their dogs were evacuated from their central Topeka home after water rose knee-deep in their street.

"The rescuers brought rafts up to the houses," Moore said. "My car's flooded in right now."


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