One Last Flooding Post With Pictures

Folks,

Prayerfully, the worst is over. The water is V E R Y slowly starting to recede, and besides a brief thunderstorm or two this evening as a cold front comes through, the rain looks like it will hold off for several days…enough to begin drying out, at least.

Here’s some final pictures from what will probably go down as the Great Flood of 2008 here in northern Missouri:

As an FYI: the Grand River is cresting tonight at a little over 39 feet near Sumner, MO and will cause moderate flooding of HIghway 139 1/2 mile east of town.

North Missouri Flooding News (Updated)

Much of the north central area of our state continues to be inundated by heavy rainfall and rising rivers and creeks; a flood warning remains in effect for the following creeks until  further notice:

• CHARITON RIVER AT NOVINGER
• CHARITON RIVER NEAR PRAIRIE HILL
• GRAND RIVER NEAR GALLATIN
• GRAND RIVER NEAR CHILLICOTHE
• GRAND RIVER NEAR SUMNER
• GRAND RIVER NEAR BRUNSWICK
• MISSOURI RIVER AT NAPOLEON
• MISSOURI RIVER AT WAVERLY
• MISSOURI RIVER AT MIAMI
• MISSOURI RIVER AT GLASGOW
• MISSOURI RIVER AT BOONVILLE

In addition, many roads have been closed off due to the flooding. As of this writing U.S. Highway 36 near Wheeling is closed across both east and westbound lanes, and Highway 11 is shut down around the Yellow Creek area south of Route E.

I’ll be taking more pics tomorrow and posting them online. As an FYI, there is a 60% chance of rain tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow evening. Please pray for a break in this weather so we can dry out. It is looking worse and worse all the time.

Northern Missouri Flooding

There was tremendous rainfall that overswept much of the area last night; reports range from 4-10 inches of rain in a brief 12-hour period which caused widespread flash flooding and also river flooding.

Here are a few pics taken this morning from around the Browning/Laclede area (we received app. 8 inches of rain from 11:00PM to 8AM):

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the area farmers and others hit hard by this unfortunate turn of events.