Approximately 125 structures were affected severely in Alexander County, which is the southernmost point of IL.
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The swollen MS and rivers that feed into it wreaked havoc in Missouri and IL after late December heavy rain and severe storms brought flooding across several central us states, leaving at least 33 people dead.
Buan says he expects the river to crest on Wednesday or Thursday if rainfall forecasts hold at less than an inch.
Although some homes and roads could become inaccessible due to rising waters, evacuations are not expected, said Tracey Porter, deputy director for the emergency management agency in Warren County.
The National Weather Service on Sunday canceled a flash flood watch for Alexander and two other IL counties, where record or near-record river levels have threatened levees. The claim collapsed less than a year later, when the “Great Mississippi Flood of 1927” devastated much of the Midwest. Oklahoma’s Governor Mary Fallin extended a state of emergency in all 77 counties of the state because of flooding and wintry conditions. You can also see the confluence of the OH and MS rivers on the lower right portion of the image.
Officials in southwest Missouri want federal officials to help buy out property owners in a flood-prone area.
“I lost my home”, Stivers said.
His family had planned for the flooding, he said.
The tiny southeast Missouri town of Allenville remains isolated by floods, but residents are feeling better about their plight. “It’s not just the water; it’s the temperature”.
The closure of the Illinois River was expanded to 110 miles from 80 miles, encompassing the section from Hardin, Illinois, to Beardstown, Illinois, the Coast Guard said in an online statement. At a press conference after lunch, the corps will talk about flood fighting efforts already in progress along the MS and Atchafalaya Rivers and discuss the potential operation of Bonnet Carré Spillway near New Orleans.
Elsewhere in the state, residents continue to clean up after President Barack Obama signed a declaration Saturday officially proclaiming an emergency in Missouri.
By Sunday morning, the river had dropped around a foot since the high-water mark in Cape Girardeau, a town of 40,000 residents, about 100 miles south of St. Louis.
“I hope it’s going to slow down”, said Kristy Morgan, an assistant manager of Little General Marathon Gas in Tiptonville, a small city in the northwest corner of Tennessee.
Across the street, 50-year-old Theresa Gibson was getting help clearing out what could be salvaged from her home where flooding buckled newly-finished oak floors and saturated walls.
The Mississippi receded further from unsafe levels at St. Louis and farther south at Thebes, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Sunday, the NWS said.
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“In ’93 that water came up and stayed on the levees for several months”, Simmons said. NRDC found that FEMA spent $48.6 billion 1998 to 2014, predominantly to fix or replace public buildings ($12.6 billion), public utilities ($7.4 billion), roads and bridges ($5.5 billion), and water-control facilities like levees, dams, and pumps ($1 billion).
