St. Louis County Executive Stenger called it “nothing short of a miracle that we have had no loss of life” in the metropolitan area.
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Amtrak officials halted the St. Louis-to-Kansas City train on Thursday, and 5-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that was closed at St. Louis halted barge traffic. This closure was between I-270 in St. Louis County and Route 100 at Gray Summit in Franklin County due to flooding of the Meramec River at Route 141. The closures forced traffic onto other nearby roads, creating gridlock in the region.
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And even though the river is dropping, “it will leave behind a mess”, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. That’s more than 4 feet above the previous record set in December 1982.
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The two major rivers got high enough to cancel Amtrak service between St. Louis and Jefferson City to the west and De Soto to the south. The Union Pacific Railroad, which operates the river-hugging lines used by Amtrak, rerouted 70 trains because of the flood. Gov. Jay Nixon activated the National Guard on Tuesday to secure evacuated areas and to offer traffic control. He was also watching computer projections of the crest, knowing that an unexpected upgrade could be enough to send water over the levee. “We expect this plant to be flooded completely before the event is over”, the metropolitan sewer district director, Brian Hoelscher, told local television station KMOV. “We’re talking about a potential 6-inch difference”. Numerous victims were trapped in cars while driving onto swamped roadways.
Officials helped residents get to higher ground Wednesday amid fears that already dire conditions could worsen as floodwaters began spilling over federal levees protecting communities and farmland.
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Nine levees had already been topped by water by Wednesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said according to the AP.
The Mississippi River is projected to drop through the weekend and continue through mid-January.
Almost a dozen other levees considered at risk for “possible significant distress”, were holding, but people were moving out just in case. Valley Park officials had ordered residents of almost 400 homes evacuated. The floodwaters there also destroyed a leftover film set used in the 2003 remake of “Where the Red Fern Grows”.
The southwest Missouri tourist destination of Branson had residents of about 150 duplexes and homes evacuate Wednesday due to flooding from a manmade lake.
“We have seven people who are going to wait it out”, Wilken said.
Flooding along the Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Meramec rivers “will have communities dealing with long-duration high water”, according to Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.com. That would be the second-worst flood on record, behind only the devastating 1993 flood. Louis are working to connect volunteers with sandbagging and other flood protection efforts.
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a high water safety advisory on Thursday for more than 560 miles of the Lower Mississippi River from Caruthersville, Missouri, to near Natchez, Mississippi.
South America: More than 160,000 have been displaced in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil over the last week by what is being described as the heaviest floods to strike South America in 50 years, Al Jazeera reports.
The water level is now at 35.7 feet, and crews are prepared to man the pumps until the water recedes.
The Argosy Alton casino, which shut down on Monday, remained closed.
Ameren Missouri said about 1,300 customers along the Meramec lost power or had to be disconnected.
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Along the Meramec river, a smaller waterway which flows through the western suburbs of St Louis, waters are expected to crest at records levels on Thursday morning.
