By Kelly Weiss, KCUR
Kansas City, MO – Residents of small towns in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri are bracing for the worst flooding along the Missouri River in more than a decade.
Flood crest predictions have fallen a little below early estimates, and small towns like Riverside, Mo., are hopeful that levees that have been built or bolstered since a 1993 flood will hold.
Downstream, Missouri City residents are sandbagging the banks, hoping to prevent a breach like that of 1993, which wiped out half the homes in the town of 300.
Kelly Weiss prepared this report for NPR's All Things Considered. To hear the report, click here.