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Flooding at Hough City Park in Belleville, Ill., on July 16, 2024. The flooded area north of Franklin Elementary School, including the playground, in Belleville Ill., on July 16, 2024.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville announced Tuesday morning on Twitter that the East St. Louis campus would be closed until further noticed due to heavy rain and flooding.
An Illinois Department of Transportation road closure map showed the following roads in the East St. Louis area and Cahokia Heights were closed at 3 p.m. due to flooding: Interstate 255 southbound ...
The July 2023 Chicago Area Flood was caused by a heavy rainfall that occurred on July 2, 2023, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area of northeastern Illinois. Rainfall up to 9.0 inches (23 cm) occurred over an 18-hour period; the majority occurred from early in the morning to late in the afternoon. [ 1 ]
The festival of the Nile as depicted in Norden's Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Map of the Nile river. The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the inundation) has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil.
The city council believed this would affect the flood waters in the already flooding Mississippi River. The same day two levees broke near the town of Keithsburg, Illinois, flooding the entire town. [2] On the morning of June 15, a levee along the Mississippi River in the town of Gulfport failed, flooding most of the town. Two more levees were ...
Flooding from a heavy rainstorm Tuesday in southwest Illinois damaged houses and cars, closed roads, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and eroded part of a levee, according to community leaders.
The city previously said Highway 50 near Lawn Avenue was closed but quickly reported it had reopened. Scott Air Force Base announced at 4:07 p.m. the Cardinal Creek Gate would be closed until ...