Soaked Arkansas waits for flood crest

• Story Highlights
• Sheriff in Des Arc says of flooding, "I'd never seen it come up so fast"
  
• Arkansas suffers estimated $2M in damage; 35 counties declared disaster areas
  
• Mississippi River well above flood stage in parts of Arkansas, Illinois
  
• It could be midweek before rivers recede -- "they're still rising," official says
  
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