KANSAS CITY — Members of the Kansas National Guard have been deployed to Doniphan County to help patrol the city of Elwood and to help with evacuations of that city because of flooding along the Missouri River. The state said about 400 residents have left Elwood. Four Olathe firefighters went to Elwood as that some of that city’s firefighters evacuated their families. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it is in the process of shoring a little more than two miles of threatened levees at Council Bluffs, Iowa. The Corps also reported several levees north of Kansas City have been overtopped or breached. Kansas City District commandant Col. Tony Hofmann urged emergency workers to keep working on protecting the levees and not walk away. Despite the flooding, the levees have worked as designed, he said. He spoke during the nightly news teleconference held by the Corps’ Omaha and Kansas City districts. In the same teleconference, Linda Howell, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said two Nebraska nuclear power plants affected by Missouri River flooding aren’t at threat. Flood waters haven’t changed significantly in the last 48 hours and the situation has stabilized, she said.
Wednesday, June 29, 4 p.m.
