Homes Demolished After Buyouts In Flood-prone Town

AP Domestic, USA Today: Nation
Sun, 11/24/2019 - 3:35pm

The small flood-prone town of Mosby, Missouri, is disappearing one house at a time as the government buys and demolishes homes there. (Nov. 24)

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