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Flood Coverage:
• DOT: I-94 West Crossover Lane in Jefferson Co. by Weeks' End
• Flooded Highway Closures: Updates
• FEMA Tours Continue
• E.coli Dangers in Flood Waters
• City of Milwaukee Free Health Kits
• Flood Forcing Entire Town To Move?

Audio: State Department of Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi on Wisconsin's Morning News

Video: Houses Swallowed

Photos: TMJ4 | Journal Sentinel

Phone contacts:
• Emergencies Only: 911
• FEMA: 1-800-6221-FEMA (for people in counties declared as disaster areas) 
• 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 (reporting damage): 262-636-3308
• Walworth Flood Hotline:  262-741-7700
• Waukesha Flood Hotline:  262-524-6669
• We Energies:  800-662-4797

Free Health Kits:
• City of Milwaukee: South Side Health Center: 1600 block of South 23rd Street

Red Cross Assistance:
• Milwaukee: 2600 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee
• Dodge: Washington Elementary School, 600 Grove Street, Beaver Dam
• Jefferson: Fort Atkinson, 925 Lexington Blvd, Fort Atkinson
• Racine: Union Grove MIddle School: 14th and State, Union Grove

Links:
• FEMA Disaster Relief for people in declared counties
• 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
• State Information on Freeway Closures

It's a new way for drivers to go west to Madison from Milwaukee over the flooded waters in Jefferson County, and road workers should have it ready to go into effect later this week.

"We've had this plan on the books for over a week now," says State Department of Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi's plan B.

What is it? To move westbound traffic to part of Eastbound 94.

"We're going to build a crossover," states Busalacchi, and crews are already constructing that lane to get drivers to the eastbound span. 

"We'll have traffic on both sides of the eastbound lane. We hope to have that crossover complete by the end of the week."

That crossover will mean one lane eastbound, one lane westbound.

Which means, according to Busalacchi, "you're going to have backup here. This is going to be a bottleneck."

That's a lot different, though, than taking a detour to Beloit, then up to Madison, which is what drivers have had to deal with for the last few days.

Busalacchi states he didn't like forcing drivers to go 100 miles out of their way, but inconvenience wasn't the main problem. It was the rising water levels.

"My concern, and the department's concern, has been keeping people safe," says Busalacchi.

Already, workers have begin constructing the new crossover, so there's only one lane of I-94 eastbound right now going through the flood zone.

More: Area Flooded Highway Closures

Federal Assessors in More Counties Today

As damage figures climb above $200,000,000 from the floods in Wisconsin, the Federal Emergency Management Agency continue to tour Southeastern Wisconsin to determine the possibility of disaster area status on a county-by-county basis.

Jefferson, Sheboygan and Ozaukee Counties have not officially been declared disaster areas yet, but FEMA officials could discover reasons to give that aid when they tour those counties today.

More: FEMA Tours Continue

Dangerous Stuff in Flooded Areas

Flood waters come with plenty of destruction, but there's a more quiet danger with e.coli bacteria.

A 13-year-old boy in Fond du Lac may be infected with e.coli after he helped his mom scrub their flooded basement.

More: E.coli Dangers in Flood Waters

Milwaukee Gives Help in Clean-Up Efforts

The City of Milwaukee is trying to help out flood victims with free clean-up kits.

The city is handing out those kits at the city's South Side Health Center.

More: City of Milwaukee Free Health Kits

Could Gays Mills Move?

A community meeting in the Crawford County community of Gays Mills gave people a chance to consider their options after two flooding disasters in 10 months.

Some want to investigate relocating the town farther away from the shores of the Kickapoo River.

More: Flood Forcing Entire Town To Move?