In South Dakota, some blame Corps for flood threat

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A sign outside of a sandbagged home owned by Deb and MonteA

Kenworthy expresses their displeasure at the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers in Ft. Pierre, S.D.

FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his home from the rising Missouri River, 82-year-old Helmet Reuer doesn't buy the official explanation that heavy rains caused a sudden flood threat.

Along with his neighbors in an upscale section of Fort Pierre, Reuer thinks the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blew it, waiting until too late to begin releasing water through the Misso...