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Flood Coverage:
• SE WI to Mother Nature: STOP!!
• Forecast: "Rain in Some Places"
• Fond Du Lac: State of Emergency
• FEMA Begins Assessments

Audio:
• WTMJ Weather Plus Storm Team Meterologist Craig Koplien on the weather to come
• Fond Du Lac Co. Exec Allen Buechel on the evacuation-or-stay home edict he's had to put on people there.
• We Energies' Brian Manthey on the flow of outages 
• Amy Nehls of the Dodge County Emergency Management Team talking about their issues

Video: Houses Swallowed

Photos: TMJ4 | Journal Sentinel

Phone contacts:
• Emergencies Only: 911
• Fond Du Lac County Emergency Shelter Line: 1-920-906-4715 (scroll down for more numbers) 
• Milwaukee County Disaster Hotline: 414-278-3000
• City of Milwaukee Flooded Basement Line: 414-286-3427
• Jefferson County (evacuation/other needs hotline) : 920-674-7450
• Jefferson County (road closures) : 920-674-9649
• Racine County (immediate concerns): 262-619-2482
• Racine County (reporting damage): 262-636-3308
• Waukesha Flood Hotline:  262-524-6669
• We Energies:  800-662-4797

Links:
• Fond Du Lac County: Tips on Dealing with Floods
• Help Clean Lake Delton
• Live Radar
• National Weather Service
• Live WX Plus Feed
• Information on river levels in your area

County Releases:
• City of Milwaukee Information on Upcoming Storms
• Information from Racine County
• Information from Waukesha
• State Information on Imminent Freeway Closures

Flood Warnings: Throughout southeast Wisconsin until Saturday

"I'm standing in the government center looking out over the parking lot, and it's two-thirds under water," said Fond Du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel on Newsradio 620 WTMJ.

"We got homes that are full, basements are full up to the first floor. Nothing we can do about it."

Except tell people to stay in their homes unless they absolutely need to evacuate.

"If you can stay home, please, stay there."

The situation has become so bad that Fond Du Lac County is under a State of Emergency.

A combinations of floods, gas leaks and other weather-related issues have made roads impassable.

If people need to reach shelter, there are a series of numbers to call:
• 1-920-906-4715
• 1-920-906-4718
• 1-920-906-4733
• 1-920-906-4734
• 1-920-906-4735
• 1-920-906-4736

Crews will provide water rescue, ambulances, or other ways to get help or shelter, which is at Fond Du Lac High School.

People should go to the north east side of Moraine Park Technical College if they can, though they are telling people not to go anywhere without assistance.

And to people who may want to travel into the city, Buechel says, simply, "stay away."

Some Similarities to Katrina

One caller to Wisconsin's Morning News said that government officials in Fond Du Lac are putting X's on doors of houses where people have evacuated, similar to steps taking during the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

"We need the water to receed. That's going to take some time. We haven't crested completely yet.

"Much of the downtown drains into (the Fond Du Lac) River, and so the water isn't going to run away on the streets.

"Many streets are blocked, in particular in the downtown area."

"The east side of the county...it's not too bad.

"The west half of the county, we have a lot of standing water. We have roads closed."

Highway 23 is closed in parts of the county, along with 26 which Buechel says could be closed for weeks due to a large level of needed repairs.

U.S. 41 is now open, though, through Fond Du Lac County.

Flooded Basements Dangerous

As has been the case often this week, reminders are coming to people with flooded basements: don't touch them.

"Don't put any part of your body in that water," says Buechel.

"There could be electrical appliances that could cause electricution. Just don't do it.

"Gas meters could be inundated. There could be a possibility of a gas leak.

"Get a sump pump, put a hose to it, get it out that way, and you're fine.

"If you don't have that, at this point, just wait. It's probably not getting any higher, and the damage is already done."