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Covering the flood

As Ammad mentioned, our own Adriene Hill is on the western edge of Illinois monitoring the Mississippi River and how people are dealing with the flooding. She just sent back her first batch of photos. Check ‘em out on our Flickr photostream. Oh yeah, you can follow her reports here.

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