Thanks to record rainfalls this month, many rivers in Minnesota are spilling their banks. The Mississippi River is still two days away from cresting in the Twin Cities and Harriet Island, across from downtown St. Paul already looks like this: Yowzer!
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Flooding in Beijing — What Does it Mean?
Beijing was hit with a terrible rainstorm over the weekend, leaving 37 dead. From the pictures that have been posted online, it seems that much of the city was turned into a big lake because the storm sewers were not up to the task of handling the 7 inches of rain that fell in the…