'Bomb cyclone' triggers flooding on Mississippi, Missouri rivers in US

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'Bombcyclone' triggers flooding on Mississippi, Missouri rivers in US

WASHINGTON - A powerful, late-winter"bomb cyclone" storm pushed into the US Midwest and the Great Lakes region on Friday , causing flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, stranding herds of cattle and raising alarms at a Nebraska nuclear power plant.

"Widespread and extremely dangerous flooding will continue today and tonight," the National Weather Service office in Omaha, Nebraska, said on Friday in a statement. The Nebraska Public Power District declared an"unusual event" at its Cooper Nuclear Station power plant on Friday due to the possibility of flooding along the Missouri.

 

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