Mark Diehl, left, and Dale Atchley move items to higher ground at the Fenton Feed Mill on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, in Fenton, Mo.
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Pacific resident Cynthia Hurst, 45, fell asleep Sunday night after helping sandbag a neighbor’s house only to wake up Monday morning and discover that floodwaters had reached her own home.
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The deadly Missouri Flooding has already claimed 14 lives on Wednesday. The Interstate 44 closure forced traffic onto other nearby roads, creating gridlock in the St. Louis region.
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Hundreds of roads have been closed across Missouri, and temperatures hovered in the 30s as volunteers sandbagged in the cold on Wednesday. Other connections between St. Louis and Jefferson counties already are closed, including I-44 over the river. To put this flood into perspective, all of the historic crests along the MS have occurred during the spring melting season or the summer rainy months.
In Eureka, southwest of St. Louis, firefighters and their boats have been in high demand since Tuesday, accounting for about four dozen rescues of people in their homes, businesses or vehicles. “I think you’re seeing people who are desperate or impatient, putting themselves in predicaments”.
Almost a dozen other levees were considered at risk for “possible significant distress”, but they were holding as of Wednesday evening.
Swollen rivers and streams pushed to near-record heights, which a day before caused an unknown number of inmates to be transferred out of an IL state prison and prompted a disaster declaration by Illinois’ governor in seven counties and the activation of the National Guard by Missouri’s governor to help divert traffic from submerged roads.
Search teams went out for a third day in hopes of finding a country music singer from Arkansas who disappeared while duck hunting in a flooded area in northern Oklahoma.
The Red Cross has set up several stations across the state.
Sarah Quinn, 18, said she and her great-grandparents were moving to a hotel room after police turned off the power at her subdivision.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon activated the National Guard to assist with security in evacuated areas and to help keep road closure sites clear.
Valley Park’s city attorney, Tim Engelmeyer, called the governor’s office to send troops to help with the evacuation of his 7,000-person town. The Cape Girardeau Gauge, also on the MS, has peaked at its record level – 48.5 feet and several homes and structures have been flooded or cut off because of backwater flooding. “We moved a lot of sand”, he said.
Between 10 and 20 inches of rain have fallen during the past few weeks in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and the lower Ohio Valley, according to the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center.
In the southwestern Missouri tourist mecca of Branson, residents of about 150 duplexes and homes had to evacuate Wednesday due to flooding from a manmade lake. “We’re not going to let people in, except home owners and business owners when the water recedes”, said Nixon.
But the MS is forecast to approach or even exceed record highs in the heavily-populated St. Louis area on Thursday and Nixon said he is “very concerned” about the safety of residents there.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that flood water from the Mississippi River and its tributaries has spilled over nine federal levees in the St. Louis area.
Franklin County Presiding Commissioner John Griesheimer has seen some big floods in his county – especially the Great Flood of 1993.
SIEGEL: Now, when you say 20-year, you mean to protect against a 20-year flood, is what you’re saying, as opposed to a 50-year flood or a hundred-year flood.
Most of the damage by Wednesday afternoon was confined to high water in some downtown basements. However, the Argosy Alton casino remained closed.
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“These citizen soldiers will provide much-needed support to state and local first responders, many of whom have spent the last several days working around the clock responding to record rainfall and flooding”, Nixon said in a statement.
