Farther south, things were getting worse: Record and near-record crest predictions of the Mississippi River and levee breaks threatened homes in rural southern Missouri and IL.
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The Mississippi River’s floodwaters are moving south, causing more levee failures and more severe damage.
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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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Twelve counties have been declared disaster areas in IL, where Governor Bruce Rauner on Saturday toured several communities hard-hit by flooding.
Floodwaters in the St. Louis area began receding Saturday, but officials warned of a massive cleanup in regions inundated after heavy rains swelled rivers in some areas to levels not seen since a devastating flood in 1993. More than 10 inches of rain fell over a period of three days, and the area was left flooded, which doesn’t usually happen in the Midwest until spring. Some houses like this one are still flooded, although water from the Mississippi, Meremec and Missouri rivers was larg… At Dardanelle, Arkansas, the National Weather Service recorded the Arkansas river at 41ft, nine feet above flood stage.
While a state of emergency was lifted from the region on Saturday, residents and emergency crews are hunkering down against a potential deluge in southern IL and Missouri.
Nixon said he’ll ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to facilitate the collection and disposal of both debris left behind by flood water and household debris, including construction materials, carpeting, furniture, appliances, etc.
For more details on the closures set in place by Sector Upper Mississippi River call the command center at 314-269-2610.
Flooding is also expected from the Arkansas and OH rivers and some tributaries.
“It’s nearly as if you’re living on some other planet”, he said, standing near a growing pile of debris in a park in Eureka, about an hour’s drive west of St Louis on the banks of the Meramec River, which flows into the Mississippi. Illinois Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson says a flood-related death in Livingston County earlier in the week and the discovery of the missing teen’s body Friday morning raised the tally after an earlier report of seven Illinois deaths.
Cape Girardeau resident Oral R Friend captured footage of some of the devastation from the air with a drone.
Jason Peck of Eureka was one of those who returned home after the flood waters receded.
Eureka, a St. Louis suburb, is on the Meramec River, which empties into the Mississippi.
“It’s going to get ugly”, he said.
Many of those who died drove into high, rushing water and were carried away in their cars. About 20 Illinois National Guard soldiers have been activated to help with recovery efforts. “Then we heard some rushing water and went downstairs and three o’clock is when it got real bad and [water] started shooting up through the drains”.
“I lost my home”, Stivers said. Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes in the Missouri communities of Pacific, Eureka, Valley Park and Arnold, where many homes took in water.
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She says the impact has been “relatively mild” to Cape Girardeau, a community of almost 40,000, where about two dozen homes and a dozen businesses have been damaged by the flood.
