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Are We Destined to

Repeat the past?

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Like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog
Day, Missourians and Iowans seem to be stuck
in the same day, repeating it over and over
again. 1993, 2011, and 2019 saw major floods
in the Missouri River Basin, and local areas have
seen flooding in several other years as well.
Just as the flooding seems to happen again and
again, so do the recommended solutions. Well
before the water starts to recede, our friends in
the environmental community are once again arguing in
By Blake Hurst, favor of “non-structural” solutions to future flooding. This
Missouri Farm Bureau is environmental speak for surrendering the floodplain to the river, turning well
over a million acres of the most productive land in the world to a home for