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1. The mayor of St. Louis is tired.
2. You would be it too if you hadn’t a day off since June, 27.
3. "Oh, God, I’m looking for the 3d of August," the Chief of the Army Corps of emergency center said together with a sigh.
4. That’s when the latest Mississippi River wave is due to hit here.
5. Floods in the Midwest have chased people from their homes, swallowed businesses and chewed up leaves.
6. They are also have wearing down the workers fighting the disaster.
7. The television is always ever tuned to the Weather Channel.
8. The telephones buzz nonstop.
9. Hahn, the head of the emergency center, encourages his staff to leave on time, but then it is difficult.
10. "People get involved with it, and it’s like, ‘I’m not going to leave what I am doing at here, because it is important,’ ” he said.
11. The county has been cut off from the rest of the state since mid-July.
12. The flood has gone on for weeks.
13. Volunteers of the emergency center, working at there, say they won’t to leave till the disaster is over.
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From: "Yummy English"
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