PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. – Parts of the Midwest have been inundated with flooding as rainfall and melting snow force rivers to swell in parts of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

In Plattsmouth, Neb., the Missouri River reached record heights – up to 40 feet – submerging many homes and businesses. By Monday, a portion of one of the town’s major throughways, Main Street, was submerged in water that had overflowed from the river. Signs warning of flooded roads were the only things signaling onlookers that a roadway was below the water.

Among the people who had come out to get a glimpse of the damage was Gary Young, who had been trying to assess any damage to his camper that was floating about a mile away. He, his wife and their'Mudding' was 'BUCKWILD' reality star's medication

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Apr 3, 2013 at 9:09 AMApr 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM

JOHN RABY, Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The sport of tearing into trails in backwoods in trucks and all-terrain vehicles, known among enthusiasts as "muddin'," is a part of life for many amateur daredevils who love to get dirty in rural West Virginia, just as it was for "BUCKWILD" cast member Shain Gandee.

It was a fitting pastime for the 21-year-old, one of the stars on a show that warned viewers not to mimic the "wild and crazy behavior" they witnessed — swearing, fighting, four-wheeling, even swimming in the bed of a dump truck-turned-swimming-pool.

He and two others were found dead inside an SUV on Monday about a mile from Gandee's Sissonville home. The Kanawha