Cape Girardeau resident Oral R Friend captured footage of some of the devastation from the air with a drone.
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(Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register via AP).
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The Mississippi River reached a record crest at Cape Girardeau Saturday morning, and has since started to drop slowly, Holste said. “It’s my home. But I’m exhausted of moving”, she told The Clarion-Ledger.
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The river is expected to crest in those areas around January 18.
(Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP).
The National Weather Service reported that MS flood waters in IL and Missouri began cresting and receding on Saturday after thousands of people had to be evacuated from their homes earlier in the week when the floods destroyed hundreds of structures.
According to Reuters, most of the 31 people killed during the disaster in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas had been out driving.
The floods have been blamed for at least 24 deaths in IL and Missouri, and three people in those two states are still missing.
As the runoff from the deluges that hit around Christmas gathered in rivers that empty into the Mississippi River, downstream gauges are predicting potential flooding for areas in southern Missouri and Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Weather Service urged people to follow evacuation orders, saying levee failures could lead to “sudden and potentially deadly flooding”.
“This is life-threatening”, Rauner told reporters at Carlyle Lake in Clinton County in southern IL.
“This is just awful”, Gibson, 50, lamented, noting how the fast-rising waters had allowed her only enough time to fill a couple of suitcases.
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt (R) visited Cape Girardeau Friday to highlight the “really unique, long-term effort” against floods in the area, and he suggested similar tactics in the St. Louis area would be helpful going forward. By Friday, it was relenting, but not before some points topped the 1993 record by 4 feet.
“Wednesday night it came in through the windows”, Mr Wolf said.
Nixon said he’ll ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to facilitate the collection and disposal of both debris left behind by flood water and household debris, including construction materials, carpeting, furniture, appliances, etc. She said she might not be able to move back for weeks while her landlord replaces soaked insulation. Friedman says she sold her kitchen cabinets to a contractor and put other possessions in storage.
In Illinois nine people have died in effect of the flooding, majority because they entered into flooded areas with their vehicles, also several counties have been declared as disaster areas, according to Patti Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
Fifteen of the deaths were in Missouri and seven in IL.
St. Louis-area cleanup largely was focused around the Meramec.
Two wastewater treatment plants were so damaged by the floodwaters that raw sewage spewed into the river.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Saturday repeated a common plea made throughout last week from emergency personnel to evacuate homes threatened by flooding.
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The Meramec River, which meets the MS near Arnold, crested at 47.2 feet Thursday, about 9 feet above what is considered a major flood stage in the community of about 20,000. The move is precautionary: A levee there is holding for now but a record crest is predicted. Two major highways Interstate 44 and Interstate 55 reopened south of St. Louis, meaning commuters who return to work next week won’t have hourslong detours.
