The Cass County Emergency Management Agency reports periodic moderate to heavy rainfall is expected across the area today and persisting into early Wednesday. Conditions will become more and more prone to flooding with time as excessive amounts of rain continue to accumulate. The flood stage where action may be needed is 15-feet, with minor flooding occurring at 19-feet. As of 10-a.m. today (Monday), the East Nish was slightly under 5-feet. The river is expected to crest from 10-a.m. Tuesday to 10-a.m. Wednesday at around 17.4-feet before falling to below the action stage. The record crest for the river was 22.81-feet, in Sept., 1972. The river also crested above 22-feet in July, 1958 and June, 1998.