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Because the river will not wait, National Guardsmen, prisoners and volunteers spent Memorial Day stacking sandbags against the swollen Illinois and Missouri rivers. The Illinois is not expected to crest until June 1. But while water levels in many areas may reach higher than during the disastrous floods of 1993, the actual property damage totals may be considerably less than the $12 billion in losses the region suffered two years ago. Reason: fewer people now live in the most vulnerable parts of the flood plains. Thousands of home owners have relocated to higher ground in the past two years, thanks...
...acres of peanut, corn, soybean and other crops were destroyed, including Georgia's renowned peaches, which were almost ready for harvesting. Crop damage was expected to reach $100 million in Georgia alone. "I believe this was a 500-year flood," said Mayor B.K. Reynolds of Bainbridge, where National Guardsmen had hurriedly erected a 20-ft. bulwark around a fertilizer plant to prevent water from reaching the chemicals within, which would have released deadly fumes...
...Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from Albany cemeteries bobbing in the clay-stained waters that washed through city streets. Or of the foul smell that permeated rural Macon County for days after 250,000 chickens drowned, forcing National Guardsmen to don masks to pick up the rotting carcasses...
...supplies trucked in from outside and dispensed at 100 different locations (limit: 2 gal. to a customer); they were forbidden to enter office buildings because sprinkler systems could not protect them from fire. Downtown at times looked like a city under military occupation: deserted except for National Guardsmen who patrolled the streets while helicopters buzzed overhead. President Clinton, who toured flooded areas many times during his 12 years as Governor of Arkansas, flew in Wednesday and declared, "I've never seen anything on this scale before...
...flood -- and he was also thinking back to his younger days in Kansas City, Missouri, hit hard by the great 1951 floods. Correspondent Taylor was collecting some new memories of the flood of 1993. "There was an eerie normality to life in Des Moines," she says. "With Guardsmen patrolling the empty streets, humidity oppressive and helicopters circling in the sky, it seemed like a M*A*S*H episode." TIME's photographers -- Steve Liss, Ron Haviv, Najlah Feanny and Fritz Hoffmann -- were scouring the area to capture such scenes on film...