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Archive Home > 2011 > July > 16 > Overflowing Missouri River floods area with mosquitoes

Overflowing Missouri River floods area with mosquitoes

By Aleese Kopf / The Bulletin
July 16, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rhonda Wiley lives five miles from the nearest floodwaters — not far enough.

Every time she walks out her door in northwest Missouri, she is blanketed by mosquitoes.

Beyond the drowned farmlands, evacuated homes and closed roads, mosquitoes have become a small but annoying....

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