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Residents of the central and southern Midwest are crossing their fingers, saying their prayers, planning evacuations, and in some cases filling sandbags in preparation for the excessive water Image courtesy of NOAAWUSTL geologist Robert Criss warns of “serious water” that could give some areas their second worst flood on record. ravishing communities in Iowa and Wisconsin. “The flood wave is propagating down the Mississippi River towards St. Louis at about the pace of a brisk walk,” said Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. “Some areas north of St. Louis in Missouri and southern Iowa are bracing for the second worst flood in their history. This is serious water.”