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At least three people drowned in Missouri, including two poll workers, as a result of flooding caused by heavy rains that hit southern and eastern parts of the state and forced numerous road ...
In total, Lemay Fire Protection district says it rescued 10 people from flood waters on Tuesday, mostly between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. Four of those people were at Bayless and I-55, where one of the ...
The National Weather Service in St. Louis said a flood warning is in effect for Madison and St. Clair counties, as well as the St. Louis area, until 11:45 p.m. Thursday “Flooding of rivers ...
U.S. Route 166 Business (US-166 Bus.) is a 7.378-mile-long (11.874 km) business route of US-166 that serves the city of Sedan. US-166 Bus. begins at US-166 southwest of Sedan and begins travelling northeast. The highway soon crosses Middle Caney Creek and continues northeast. It then intersects K-99 and begins to follow it east.
The flood damage, the United States Department of Agriculture says, could have been greatly limited had the Floodway Project been completed. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, however, the plan is unworkable; or per Senator John McCain's recitation of an earlier article in The Washington Post, "absolutely ridiculous". [8]
After Pardee studied the canyon of the Flathead River, he estimated that flood waters above 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) would be required to roll the largest of the boulders moved by the flood. He estimated the water flow was 9 cubic miles per hour (38 km 3 /h), more than the combined flow of every river in the world. [ 8 ]
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Record rainfall caused widespread flash flooding across the St. Louis area early Tuesday, closing multiple roadways and prompting rescues from vehicles and homes. There were ...
The flooding closed a number of roads in Missouri around the Meramec River, and threatened to force the closure of Interstate 44 at Valley Park. [10] Unlike the Great Flood of 1993 , which affected this same region, the majority of homes and businesses in Valley Park were protected from the flooding by a new levee built in 2005. [ 10 ]