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jupiterhill
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Monday, June 3, 2019 7:43 PM | |
So I thought I'd share a Youtube video from a town close to where I live. its about 15 miles from my house and its seen better days. The levee couldn't hold the water and the town of Franklin, MO (known as old Franklin since New Franklin is on a little higher ground up the road) is taking the brunt of the water. The Missouri river has flooded the banks all throughout Missouri and the Mississippi isn't much better. This same area was devastated in the Flood of 1993 and the first building you see in the video is a grocery store called Snoddy's (I forgot the founder's first name, but I think the current owner is the 4th generation of Snoddy to run it). In 1993 their old location was ruined so they moved up the road to higher ground. As you can see, this flood is doing a number on their new store as well. The bridge was built in 1995 and sits higher then the old bridge, however in the current conditions, its a pedestrian walkway since there's nowhere for traffic to go once they cross into Howard County. Though I see a vehicle cross in the video, it could be a police vehicle.
https://youtu.be/aMZf__Kt3rE
I never thought I'd see the day where people would consider the 1993 Flood as SECOND worst flood they've witnessed, but with rain coming the next two weeks, I think its a foregone conclusion. Luckily no lives have been lost that I know of. People I know have been posting pictures on Facebook and I might update from time to time on here if anyone is interested. It seems Howard/Cooper county don't get as much coverage as Jefferson City so I thought I'd show an area you may not have seen about. I considered doing a blog about it, but I haven't taken any pictures of my own, and not sure if I could do a story on it that would do it justice.
If you live in an area with flooding, feel free to post them on this thread. Maybe give a little background so we know what we're looking at.
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KMack
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Monday, June 3, 2019 8:20 PM | |
I flew out of Columbia to Dallas this afternoon and the view of the flooding from up above is unbelievable. And I hear another 4-6" of rain this week...
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Driver8k
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Monday, June 3, 2019 8:24 PM | |
That's sad to see. We have some flooding here in Ohio, but nothing compared to that. The biggest problem we are facing is unable to get in the fields. My dad said out of 3500 acres they got 200 acres of corn in. It's like that all over. A couple of guys I work with at the ethanol plant, are already thinking of filling crop insurance claims. With flooding like you've shown. And the fact that the rest of the corn belt can not get into the fields. Things my get rough this year, and everyone is going to feel the effects of it. Not just those of us in the agriculture field.
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switzr1
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Monday, June 3, 2019 8:36 PM | |
In the Quad Cities, there are places where maybe 3 more inches of water and it's on the interstate. Where I crossed the Mississippi yesterday, the flood water from east to west was probably a mile or more.
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ranfordfan
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Monday, June 3, 2019 9:13 PM | |
WOW that is crazy!! Levees and rain are not real besties are they!! Sad to see and maybe the rest stays away. We are slowly drying out up here. Last few years have been above average for precip but not this year. Warm and windy so far.
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spazmatastic
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Monday, June 3, 2019 10:03 PM | |
I remember hearing all about the '93 flood when I was in high school and this certainly seems worse and more widespread. I feel for everyone living and working in the Mid-West. We don't get floods like that here in NC. Most of our flooding is from hurricanes and tropical storms. But last year was the all-time wettest year on record here in NC, in large part due to Hurricanes Florence and Michael. But the rain continued to fall this year until last month. It's been very dry here the past few weeks, so the farmers and gardeners have finally been able to make some progress. After this past week being in the mid-90's every day, most of the corn and soybean fields I drive by every day have finally been planted now. It took a lot longer for them to get started, but once they could get in the fields things went fast. But some fields still haven't been worked at all. I'm guessing they'll be used for quick-growing crops like wheat and straw this year. I haven't seen ANY tobacco planted yet. I even saw irrigation sprinklers on today when I went to work. Those aren't usually needed for a couple more weeks around here.
All the rain caused chaos in my raised-bed gardens over the winter and spring. It caused all kinds of weeds and stuff to grow in them and even worse, it packed the heck out of the soil. So I'm having to go through every inch of soil to un-pack it while also removing all the weeds and their roots. One bed is done and planted, but the other isn't complete yet. I'm close to planting though. I have a few more feet of the bed to clear out and then I can add in the new top soil and plants. I just hope my plants take the transfer well. They aren't seedlings anymore and are getting too big for the pots they are in now. Plus I'm having to water them almost every day since it hasn't rained much in about a month. Pots don't hold water like actual ground does. The lack of rain lately has also made the pollen count higher than I've seen it in many years. I sure wish a bit of that mid-west rain would make it to the upper south-east. It would help both regions a bunch.
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jupiterhill
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Monday, June 3, 2019 11:35 PM | |
You probably got a good view of Jefferson City. The flood of '93 hit their airport hard and I believe its under water again. They raised the road but I have a feeling it will be covered soon as well.
As for crops, I was just talking to someone today about how prices will be a lot higher next year for corn and many other crops. Nebraska was hit hard too and Iowa, even Kansas has had bad flooding. I feel bad for the farmers especially the ones that have had their farms for generations. Seems like each time it floods more and more get out of farming. It's a shame.
By the way Spaz, I have relatives just north of Charlotte and it seemed like it rained daily over there last year. They had some sheds to put up and finally got them up. As for being dry, I saw a map showing where the worst drought was in the state of Missouri last year and it overlaps with where the worst flooding is this year. It's unbelieveable.
As for being worse than 93, I think it is. People will compare the two and maybe in spots won't reach the same levels, but they have to remember levees were rebuilt in case of floods like these. As one guy said on the news tonight "They said the flood of '93 was a 500 years flood. Who knew we'd see two of them in one lifetime". I had a bad feeling this past winter when the snow just piling on the Dakotas that we'd be flooding now, my sister was astounded when I mentioned that a few months ago and now its happening.
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Billy Kingsley
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spazmatastic
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019 12:42 AM | |
I live about 2 driving hours north (and slightly east) of Charlotte. There was a large portion of the year where the ground couldn't dry up before more rain came. I had a septic tank lid that cracked last summer and I couldn't get a septic company in to replace the lid b/c of the soaked ground. After over 6 months, I finally got them to come in February b/c I couldn't wait any longer for the ground to dry out. The back yard is still all tore up from that small tractor hauling in the concrete cover, but it had to be done. And for the first 4 months of this year, it rained almost every single Friday! Not just a little bit of rain either, but downpours lasting half the day or multiple days. At least the temps were warm enough most of those weeks to not be snow or sleet and ice. That 10 inches of snow in early December was quite a surprise, but at least it was by far the worst snowfall we had for the season (and a record setter for December snowfall here). Unfortunately, that was way too early for that kind of snow here and I told everyone that this was going to be a really hot summer. We didn't even make it TO summer before a widespread heat wave hit. We rarely have more than a couple days at a time in the 90's before the end of June. Last week's heat wave tied the 2nd-longest streak of 90+ degree days in the month of May ever recorded. The Top-3 records were all from the 19-teens.
As for your rainfall/drought overlap area, the same thing happened in Texas and California the past few years too. It seems to happen in Florida every few years as well. The mountains of NC were in a drought before Hurricane Florence hit last August. The rains that came from that were too much at once and started washing out roads and bridges and eventually shut down parts of the highways, including I-40! I'm not a religious man, but when things like this happen, I always think about what the people pray to receive. "Please bring some rain" brings way more than anyone wants and "Please stop the rain" stops it for too long. It's been pretty consistent the past decade for areas experiencing flooding and drought. It seems like too many prayers for the same thing bring too much response.
I really hope no one will bash me for those comments! It is just observations I've had after decades of following weather across the country (and even the world as a whole). I have nothing against religion of any type and no proof that none of their higher powers exist. I just wanted to point out this potential anomaly or possible divine intervention.
Weather is easy to assume when you have lots of years observing it, but it's much harder to predict exactly when any changes will happen and how drastic they will be at any time.
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spazmatastic
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:09 AM | |
So you didn't have any real problems there from Isabel in 2003 or "Superstorm" Sandy in your area Billy? Just curious. I know both were pretty bad at flooding the New England region. I'm sure some of that came through your area. It's feasible that the mountains north of you (in NH and VT) siphoned some of the water to produce a slower rate heading back to the Atlantic Ocean from Isabel though. I think Sandy curved dramatically over your area to produce little rainfall in mid-NY though.
Isabel was ONLY a tropical storm when she hit the coast of NC in 2003, but she flooded my Grandfather's house with 18 inches of storm surge. Since his house was flooded with 3x that much in 1999 from the combo of Hurricane Dennis and Hurricane Floyd, he couldn't afford flood insurance anymore. (NOTE: Floyd wasn't the real problem there, but gets all the "fame". Dennis dumped inches of rain for days before Floyd came along. Floyd pushed the stalled TS Dennis out into the Atlantic finally, but hit the NC coast hard as a Cat1.) After Isabel (also a Cat1), he couldn't get FEMA assistance b/c he didn't have flood insurance. Now the house sits abandoned on a nice lot in a small community right by the sound. It's been like that since then b/c no one in the family can afford to do anything significant with it. The house is about 100 years old with a later addition built on. So the house can't be raised above the flood plain as a whole house without breaking apart. The 50+ year-old addition is the current kitchen and living room. Basically, the entire house would have to be demolished and re-built as a new house on stilts, especially since a canal runs through the backyard as the property line. I have many fond memories of playing on that property as a child on summer vacation, even when I slid off the dock in a "race" with my cousin and ended up in the canal full of crabs, snakes and snapping turtles. I wasn't the last one to do that either! So many family members slid off that dock into the water and frantically scrambled to get out. Nobody ever got hurt in there though. I'd LOVE to have the money to make that a nice property again!
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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