Fifteen have died in Missouri. She felt lucky to find the damage isolated to her crawl space when she returned for the first time Thursday. The southern suburbs were another story. Several hundred homes took in water, and residents are just beginning to assess the damage.
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Governor Rauner has ordered the Illinois National Guard soldiers to active duty to help with flood recovery efforts in the state.
He said he hopes to visit all twelve counties that have been declared disaster areas.
A water plant failed in the St. Louis-area town of High Ridge this week after flooding from the Meramec River swamped the plant.
Jay Newman, chef at Frederick’s Pub and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, said he was mostly stuck in his Arnold home for two days because of the flooding, which closed most of the area roads.
Polk County emergency management director Rick Davis says about 75 to 100 people were searching Friday for another man whose vehicle was found Sunday washed up against a guardrail on a county bridge.
Still, this flood could be different.
He says the plan is to go after federal financial assistance, where they will try to get relief reimbursed from the federal government.
“It’s fantastic the way the community has come together to save downtown Alton”, Rauner said.
Arkansas officials said they expected the river, which bisects the state from west to southeast before joining the MS, to crest late on Saturday.
There have also been four instances of water overtopping levees near Len Small, he added. The river was expected to crest Saturday, about 3½ feet below the 1993 record.
It has, for the most part, stayed dry, unlike neighbors’ homes and businesses along the brief stretch of state highway, much of it evacuated. There were no immediate reports of damage.
At least nine other levees – five on the Mississippi River, three on the Missouri and one on Illinois’ Kaskaskia River – were topped by water this week, but none protected populated areas.
Ste. Genevieve, a historic French village dating to the 18th century, remained dry thanks to a levee.
Cairo, Illinois, where the OH and MS rivers meet, seemed safe, despite a near-record crest prediction.
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Nixon says he’ll ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help collect and dispose of the debris.
