Viewfinder: Flooding in the Midwest

Pacific Standard Staff
March 25, 2019
Following a bomb cyclone that dumped rain and melted snow across the Midwest, many sates, including Iowa, have experienced flooding.
Following a bomb cyclone that dumped rain and melted snow across the Midwest, many sates—Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, especially—have experienced flooding. Pictured here, floodwater covers Highway 2 on March 23rd, 2019, near Sidney, Iowa.

Viewfinder is Pacific Standard’s daily photo feature, showcasing one image from the news.

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