Fires and floods, all from today's news: what's going on

Check this out.  All these headlines and news stories are out just today, fresh off the wire.  This is what's going on across the country right now.

First, fires.

The ones in Arizona:

Arizona forest fire expands to 233,000 acres

Major wildfire spreads across eastern Arizona

Then on the East Coast:

Wildfire smoke drifts 130 miles up Ga. coast

Wildfires Buring 200K Acreas In NE Fla.

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Then Texas, you can't forget Texas:

Wildfires continue to burn in several counties ‎ And Colorado: Colorado health department warns of dangerous haze from wildfires Next up is the flooding. First Nebraska: Farmers Can Prepare for Flooding Now Low-level emergency declared at Fort Calhoun nuke plant ‎‎ Then Iowa: Platte River flood threat in Nebraska‎ Modale Residents Prepare For Historic Flooding ‎ Governor says Missouri River flooding worst in his lifetime (audio)‎ Montana: Wyoming residents reach out to Montana flood victims ‎ Missouri on the Western side: Federal, State Officials Warn of Long-Term Missouri River Flooding ‎ And check out this little beauty from this story, here, above, in case you wonder when it will be over:   (Washington, DC) -- More water will be released into the Missouri River than ever before in the coming months as federal officials work to deal with record amounts of rain and mountain snow packs. Kevin Grody of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warns the mountain snow pack in Montana has not started to melt much yet and cited several inches of rain in the past few weeks. Grody said the release of water from several reservoirs will more than double previous records for releases. He said the six dams on the Missouri River are in good shape and are not expected to have any problems, but said the levee system could be troublesome due to a mix of levees built for different levels of flood protection. Federal officials expect flooding to continue on the Missouri River into mid-August at the earliest. Then there's Missouri on the Eastern side: Missouri River Flooding Expected ‎ Illinois: CF Industries to close plant on flooding worries ‎ Minnesota: Amtrak service between St. Paul and Spokane to resume Tuesday ‎ Then there's the different areas experiencing drought to severe drought across the country. There's South Carolina: SC drought alert and brush, grass fires start early for Anderson area ‎ And Colorado: Drought plagues rangeland - The Pueblo Chieftain: News And Texas, again: Water restrictions increase amid Texas drought And Oklahoma:   Drought grows more dire in Texas and Oklahoma And Kansas: Winter wheat harvest begins in Kansas amid drought fears Then we can't forget the tornadoes this year in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and then our own Joplin, just down the road, along with Reading, Kansas, of course. According to the American Red Cross, this is just some of the things they've responded to this year alone: American Red Cross volunteers have staffed numerous disaster response efforts so far this spring, including those still underway in Alabama and Mississippi, the recent storms in Massachussets, Missouri, Oklahoma and Minnesota, flooding in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Vermont, and the anticipated flooding right here in Nebraska. My point is only that there sure seems like there's a heckuva lot going on, weather-wise, and that most of it hasn't been good by a long shot. The sky isn't falling but it's busy. ‎