Well it has happened again as I am sure you have heard. As many surveyors in the area, we have been busy shooting elevations along levees, locating high water marks. I was down in extreme SE MO on Tuesday and ventured over into Arkansas, just a few miles from Pocahontas, where the levee was overtopped and ultimately failed. We had just completed a EC for a house in Ripley County along the Current river. The BFE in that area on that property was overtopped by nearly 10 feet. The current river crested at 33.3 feet - typically only 1-2 feet deep, the previous record was 26.8 feet set in 1904.
With interstate 44 and interstate 55 closed and nearly every state route flooded, we had to drive up through central IL just to get back home last night. I'll be working over in St. Louis County and St. Charles along the Missouri River levees today I'll try to get some pics. Still raining...
Just heard on the morning news St. Louis is an "island" with all major roadways underwater. Stay safe man.
StLSurveyor, post: 426769, member: 7070 wrote: I'll try to get some pics
FL/GA PLS., post: 426770, member: 379 wrote: Stay safe man.
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Back in 93 I stood on the bluff by the Weldon Spring quarry and looked over the river. It looked like a brown ocean.
Stay safe and dry, Tom
You can cuss my neighbors in the next county to the north and the one to the northeast for sending their runoff your way. My runoff heads for Oklahoma instead. The great divide is about seven or eight miles away at its nearest point to my house.
