ST. LOUIS (AP) – The worst of the risky, deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents of several water-logged communities to assess damage, clean up and figure out how to bounce back – or in some cases, where to live.
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Some flood-weary communities were getting relief: The Missouri, Meramec and MS rivers were cresting throughout the St. Louis region.
Hundreds of Midwesterners were urged to evacuate on Friday after the Mississippi River reportedly topped a levee in southern IL, putting several communities in jeopardy. The storms and floods killed 15 people in Missouri, officials have said.
‘We are breathing a bit easier, ‘ said Sandra Cabot, director of tourism for the historic French settlement that dates to the 18th century. City leaders were weighing whether it was safe for them to return as the water had already dropped almost a foot since its crest.
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The raging water poured over sandbags at Valley Park’s sewage treatment plant, forcing its closure and allowing raw sewage to flow into the Meramec, just as it has since Monday when another wastewater plant in nearby Fenton flooded. The crest prediction at Cape Girardeau expected Sunday was upgraded to a foot and a half above the 1993 record. Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by…
As flood waters spilled onto neighboring farms and residences, Tatum said the situation was “pretty dire”. The death toll in IL rose Thursday from seven to eight.
But by Friday afternoon, all portions of I-44 and Interstate 55 in the St. Louis area had reopened.
Many hard-hit St. Louis-area towns kept their residents updated using social media. Parts of those highways, including a 24-mile stretch of I-44, were closed because of flooding earlier this week.
Water went over the top of a levee in southern Illinois’ Alexander County, prompting people to evacuate areas near the levee, the office of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said Friday.
As the runoff from the deluges that hit around Christmas continues gathering in rivers that empty into the Mississippi River, downstream, gauges are predicting flooding in areas farther south as deep torrents roll that way – in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, in early January.
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Minor flooding along the Ohio River was affecting parts of Owensboro and Paducah in Kentucky, with most cresting expected by Tuesday.
