This was to be the season of county fairs and riverfront festivals, all domed in clear blue and cotton cumulus, with the deep, black earth beneath yielding abundance. But for one more weekend in eight heartland states, the skies were angry and the water poured down on flooded river bottoms and supersaturated farmland.
"The outlook is bleak," said Bob Anderson, of the Army Corps of Engineers in sodden St. Louis, Missouri. "The weather patterns are merciless." Another record-shattering crest -- this one 48 ft., something not even imagined a week ago -- is gathering on the upper Mississippi River and rolling...
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