Floodwater from the Meramec River surround the bridge deck of I-44 and Highway 141 in southwest St. Louis County, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015.
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The nearby MS and Missouri rivers will likely not break historic records, the Post-Dispatch reported.
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J.B. Forbes/AP The flood has closed sections of Interstate 44 and Interstate 55, both major trucking routes, along with many local roads near rivers, the Missouri Department of Transportation said on Thursday.
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State transportation workers fought to reopen it. “They’re setting intermittent closures for our sandbagging and pumping operations”, said Missouri DOT spokeswoman Marie Elliott.
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.
The flooding also prompted evacuations in Missouri and IL on Wednesday.
People were moving out just in case, including in the St. Louis suburb of Valley Park, where Mayor Michael Pennise ordered mandatory evacuations for 350 to 400 homes and dozens of businesses near the fast-rising Meramec River.
Swollen rivers in the U.S. Midwest and other regions brought flood warnings for over 12 million Americans on Wednesday as scores of buildings were submerged after days of intense rain in which 24 people have died. “I think you’re seeing people who are desperate or impatient, putting themselves in predicaments”.
The Army Corps of Engineers told Maria that water levels “came close but did not spill over”.
The river was still rising next to the Missouri town just north of St. Louis, and not expected to crest until late Thursday.
Almost a dozen other levees were considered at risk for “possible significant distress”, but they were holding as of Wednesday evening.
Forecasters warned Thursday that flood-hit parts of the nation were under the threat of a “slow-motion disaster” in the wake of storms that have killed at least 21 people in Missouri and IL.
One of the men is a duck hunter who disappeared this weekend from the Four Rivers Conservation Area in Vernon County. A spokesman said the Iowa troops were heading south with 2,000-gallon portable water tanks known as “hippos”. “You don’t know where that water is going to go”, he said. In addition, Three historic sites have been closed by the flooding, according to the Associated Press. “We’re talking about a potential 6-inch difference”.
Valley Park City Attorney Tim Engelmeyer said it was touch and go whether the expected crest of around 43 feet on Thursday would breach the levee.
In the southwestern Missouri tourist mecca of Branson, residents of about 150 duplexes and homes had to evacuate on Wednesday because a manmade lake flooded.
The Mississippi River is already more than 14 feet above flood stage in some areas and is forecast to rise another eight feet before cresting today, according to the National Weather Service. “If the protective measures fail, the City of Portage Sioux will be isolated in a matter of hours”, it said.
Meanwhile, massive flooding in the St. Louis area has caused another wastewater treatment plant to shut down.
In Illinois, some inmates were moved out of the Menard Correctional Center, a maximum security prison on the banks of the Mississippi River, and sandbags and drinking water were prepared in anticipation of flooding in lower level cell blocks, Illinois officials said in a statement. Rain-swollen rivers will set records in the Mississippi River basin through much of January.
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“The levee systems and floodways are created to handle these kinds of flows, but we certainly don’t like the high levels that we’re seeing so early in the season”, he adds.
