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You may or may not have heard about the severe flooding in the Midwest states of the USA.

Several people have died, hundreds have been injured, thousands have lost their homes and several thousand volunteers includding ones from states as far away as Texas and Georgia have spent night and day helping to shore up levees on the Mississippi River.

Entire cities from Iowa to Missouri have been flooded - estimated damages already in the billions of $'s and many farmers will miss an entire season's crops.
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Christopher and I went to downtown St Louis along the river front - most all of the streets leading to the river and river access businesses have been blocked off. We were able to get close enough to see just how high the water was. At about 12 feet above flood stage - St Louis is not in danger of major losses like other cities up and down the Mississippi River. The river is about 10 feet lower than the flood in 1993, which was considered a "500 year flood".

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Very helpful navigation tips here --- and a 35 mph speed limit - "Big Foot" couldn't do that.....!!!!

Normally I would have taken a photo of Water Street - but it was under, well water - and so where the street signs.......
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the 700 missing people and their loved ones from the ferry that sank in the Philippines.
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