Soggy Northern Plains braces for second slug of water

LODGE GRASS — Rain-swollen rivers that have swamped Montana towns could keep flooding the region for another month or more as melting mountain snow delivers a second slug of water to the soggy Northern Plains.

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Kathryn Old Crow, 73, describes flooding that forced her from her home near Lodge Grass,to U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, left, and Gov. Brian Schweitzer, as her grandson, Wade Old Crow, watches Friday . Recent flooding displaced hundreds of residents of southeastern Montana's Crow Indian Reservation and damaged an estimated 200 homes.

Heavy rains are forecast through the h...