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"The St. Louis area recently received two months worth of rain in less than two days, which has caused the Meramec River to surge out of its banks to major flood level.
Downpours earlier this week dumped 6-10 inches of rain on parts of eastern Missouri, which sent the Meramec River to major flood stage near and west of St. Louis.
The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) [2] while wandering 218 miles (351 km) [3] from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River ...
The name "Big River" is a translation of the French Grande Rivière. [5] According to the National Weather Service, the maximum flood stage of the Big River at Byrnes Mill occurred on August 21, 1915, and was 30.20 feet (9.20 m), with a flow of roughly 80,000 cubic feet (2,300 m 3) per second. Flood stage at Byrnes Mill is 16 feet (4.9 m).
The Osage peoples were the first people that lived in what today is Arnold, many artifacts have been found in the area that show there was an ancient Osage village near where the Meramec River meets the Mississippi River. In the area where 2 salt licks used to be, human bones have been found, along with pottery shards and many other artifacts.
The river finally fell below the major stage on Oct. 30, dropped to the moderate stage on Nov. 7 and is expected to fall below the minor flooding stage today, Nov. 12.
In St. Charles County, the Missouri River reached well above flood stage with forecasts as high as 11 feet (3.4 m) above flood stage, and seven private levees were threatened. Another hard-hit community was Arnold , where the Meramec River threatened to reach major flood stage for the third time in 2008, although sandbags were still up from the ...
Major rivers including the Mississippi are expected to reach record highs as flood waters rush toward the Gulf of Mexico, the National Weather Service said. Record flooding hits Midwest, threatens ...