A few months ago, Jo attempted to give a play by play of the swollen Mississippi and southeast Missouri rivers as our region suffered. The geographic location has shifted northwestward, but the suffering is the same. Mercifully, the Missouri below Kansas City has been spared what the Nebraska-Iowa-Kansas Tri-State region is enduring. These photos and [...]

According to the Associated Press in this story from BSD.com, the Army Corps of Engineers said that the Mississippi had finally quit flowing into the breached levee at Birds Point, Missouri.
Earlier in the week, Governor Jay Nixon told the Corps that Missouri was willing to assist financially with the rebuild of the levee. A decision [...]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake announced today that the lake is cresting at an elevation of 396.7 feet today and tomorrow.
The elevation of the overflow spillway is 394.74 feet.  A temporary rock dike was constructed in front of the overflow spillway With the rock dike in place, the water that would [...]

I had plenty of opportunity to experience southeast Missouri’s extreme weather on Tuesday and Wednesday on my monthly newsstand/ad sales route. Photos from Van Buren, Poplar Bluff, Lake Wappapello, Sam A. Baker State Park, Clearwater Lake, Black River, Bellview Valley and Valley Park are posted below. Pictures of the Big River and Jacks Fork were [...]