The declaration allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security to coordinate relief efforts.
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After that, flooding is expected to worsen in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other southern states, though the breadth of the flooding there isn’t expected to match what happened in Missouri and IL.
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Mike O’Connell of the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency said earlier that Hunt’s body was found just downstream from where his vehicle left the road.
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In Thebes, Illinois, about 200km downriver from St Louis, the flood water was expected to crest at 14m yesterday, more than 0.5m above the 1995 record, the National Weather Service said.
An aerial view from a Missouri National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter shows the effects of flooding in Pacific, Missouri, Dec.30, 2015.
Interstate 44 and 55 which were once under water reopened south of St. Louis Friday, said the Associated Press.
The Mississippi is predicted to crest in Memphis on January 9; Greenville, Mississippi, on January 14; Vicksburg, Mississippi, on January 16; Natchez, Mississippi, on January 17; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 19.
“We’re kind of winging it really”, he said.
It appears that more floods could occur, so in order to prevent damages to people and structures, officials are constantly monitoring river levels, since the high crests of the Mississippi River moved south toward Mississippi and Louisiana, USA Today reported.
“Some communities have actually been hit harder than the ’93 flood”, Rauner said Saturday, referring to the costly 1993 flood that had parts of many communities along the MS under water for months.
In Illinois, the death toll grew to nine with the discovery of an 18-year-old’s body, according to Christian County Coroner Amy Calvert Winans.
By Friday afternoon, conditions had eased in the St. Louis area.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday declared 12 counties in the state as disaster areas and ordered members of the National Guard to assist in evacuations and flood controls.
That brings the number of deaths blamed on flooding to 25, with 10 of them in IL. County board Chairman Chalen Tatum said that three families had to protect themselves by staying dry behind sandbags fortifications and private levees.
In West Alton, Missouri, a Mississippi River town that sits near the convergence with the also-elevated Missouri River just north of St. Louis, evacuees couldn’t yet return because floodwaters continued to pour over the overwhelmed levee, Mayor Willie Richter said.
Signs that floodwaters were headed south began to emerge as the NWS issued a major flooding designation on Saturday for Osceola, Arkansas, where the Mississippi River reached above 35 feet (10.7 m), well above the 28-foot flood stage.
Several thousand people were forced to evacuate or suffered damage to their homes, hundreds of businesses also sustained damage, and hundreds of water rescues were conducted, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said.
In southeast Missouri, the fast-rising MS damaged about two-dozen homes in Cape Girardeau and threatened a power substation, though the community of almost 40,000 residents is mostly protected by a flood wall.
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The water plant at High Ridge, Missouri, had been out of operation since Wednesday. Levee breaks nearby apparently reduced the water level enough that the river didn’t reach the earlier prediction of 50 feet.
