Soggy Midwest faces new summer threat: more rain

Thursday, June 23, 2011 | 3:48 p.m. CDT; updated 3:57 p.m. CDT, Thursday, June 23, 2011

MINOT, N.D. — The reservoirs are full. The dams are open wide. The rivers have already climbed well beyond their banks. Throughout the Missouri River Valley and other parts of the upper Midwest, there's simply no place left for any more water.

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