The National Weather Service reported MS floodwaters in IL and Missouri began cresting and receding on Saturday after thousands of people had to be evacuated from their homes earlier in the week when the floods destroyed hundreds of structures.
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The Mississippi is expected to crest at Thebes, in southern IL, at 47.5 feet (14 meters) on Sunday, more than 1.5 feet above the 1995 record, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
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Parts of the South were also in the flood’s path. Moderate Mississippi River flooding is expected in Memphis. Minor flooding along the Ohio River was affecting the Kentucky cities of Owensboro and Paducah, and the crest wasn’t expected until Thursday.
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The worst of the week’s flooding is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents in several waterlogged communities assessing damage, cleaning up and in some cases figuring out where to live.
The floods have been blamed for at least 24 deaths in IL and Missouri, and three people in those two states are still missing. Searchers were still looking Friday for five missing people – two teenagers in IL, two men in Missouri and one man in Oklahoma.
The water level on the Mississippi River was on the way down at St. Louis after reaching to within 7 1/2 feet of the 1993 record on Thursday. Two major highways – Interstate 44 and Interstate 55 – reopened south of St. Louis, meaning commuters who return to work next week won’t have hourslong detours.
US President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration, allowing federal aid to be used in the clean-up operations. “We’re going to do everything that we can to make sure the communities get the support they need”.
He says officials plan to feed livestock for now and look into the possibility of moving them, although that would take special efforts like tranquilizing them. The massive cleanup from the catastrophe is under way in some towns while further south people are still bracing from the worst from the mighty MS and we have the latest from cape Girardeau.
For more details on the closures set in place by Sector Upper Mississippi River call the command center at 314-269-2610. Some houses like this one are still flooded, although water from the Mississippi, Meremec and Missouri rivers was larg…
Jay Nixon says he’s asking for a federal emergency declaration in the wake of severe flooding in the St. Louis area. In Louisiana, where crests at some points along the river are not expected until mid-January, officials are checking levees daily.
As the runoff from the deluges that hit around Christmas gathered in rivers that empty into the Mississippi River, downstream gauges are predicting potential flooding for areas in southern Missouri and Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Located off IL 3, either side of it more like a lake than the farmland usually seen, the home is protected by pumps, hundreds of sandbags and a small built up levee the family began working on after the Great Flood of 1993. Some plane owners have moved their airplanes to other sites as a precaution.
Vella Friedman’s family is among more than 100 IL families who agreed to sell their homes to the government after 2011 flooding but are still waiting for the buyout money. “And with a newborn baby, you watch this water get up to where it’s inches from those electrical outlets and it’s probably time to get ready to go”.
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There were growing fears too for residents in southern IL, where the rising Mississippi River reportedly topped a levee, putting several towns and rural communities at risk.
