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Click to VIEW Poplar Bluff and Qulin Photos Contributed by: Glen Sedrick North of Qulin North of Qulin North of Qulin North of Qulin Poplar Bluff Industrial Park Briggs and Stratton Industrial Park Contributed by: Mary Collins POPLAR BLUFF HWY 60 bypass Poplar Bluff Area Poplar Bluff Area East Poplar Bluff East Poplar Bluff Race Track Twin Towers Contributed by: [email protected] POPLAR BLUFF (Wed, 19 Mar 2008 evening 18:00) Vine Street Bridge (Tues, 25 Mar 2008, evening 18:00) Vine Street Bridge (Wed, 19 Mar 2008 evening 18:00) on Business US 60 Church next to Sportsman Park (Wed, 19 Mar 2008 evening 18:00) Riggs warehouse (near Sportsman Park) on Business US 60 (Wed, 19 Mar 2008, morning 09:30) Clinton Park (Wed, 19 Mar 2008, morning 09:30) Clinton Park (Tues, 25 Mar 2008, evening 18:00) Clinton Park
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Torrential rains earlier in the week lasting more than 24 hours
caused many creeks and normally low water streams to overflow.
These smaller streams carrying water run off from the Ozark Hills
north of the low lands and into the larger rivers bringing about
major flooding in Missouri and neighboring states. Traveling was
difficult from St. Louis into Arkansas for this Easter weekend.
At Least 70 Missouri counties have reported flooding. The
U.S.Coast guard was kept busy througout the state of Missouri
rescuing people caught up in the flood waters.
The U.S. Coast guard reported its crews in boats and in the air
had rescued 52 residents and 15 pets from flood waters in and
around Poplar Bluff, Allenville and Eureka. Forty people trapped
at Coon Island near Poplar Bluff after a levee broke on Wednesday
were rescued by two Coast Guard helicopters from New Orleans
brought in to assist with this operation. Poplar bluff seen 1000
people in shelters from this flood. Hwy 53 between Poplar Bluff
and Qulin was under water for several days when levees broke.
More than 150 miles north and west of Poplar Bluff I-44 west of
Doolittle was closed when the Gasconade river near Jerome crept
out of it's banks and onto the interstate. 150 miles north of
Poplar Bluff, in Fenton MO., hwy 141 looked more like a lake than
a major hwy under the intersection at I-44. Flooding at this
intersection caused a major issue for traffic when the Meramec
broke out of it's banks. Pacific MO, a town of 7,000 residents 35
miles south west of St. Louis, one of several flooded MO towns,
estimates 200 homes and businesses were damaged with the town
flooded.
The flooding reports were repeated from Oklahoma to St. Louis and
Cape Girardeau MO., into Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas
Many towns stood watch as the water continued to rise hoping the
levees held fearful of the destruction it could cause.
Compiled by: Mary Hudson
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Stats from the NOAA /Natl Weather Service
03/18 05:00 river stage 04.02 ft (rain just starting)
Historical Crests
(1) 21.68 ft on 12/04/1982
Flood Cegories (in feet) | |
