Let's Go Blues

After seeing from a distance (from 270) while on my way home from school the havoc the flood was wreaking on 44, I decided to see if I could get anywhere close to 44 and 141 to see what was happening. I thought I'd probably meet with some resistance; during the '93 flood, a friend and I stood on one of the on-ramps for 40 near Chesterfield Mall and had National Guardsmen yelling at us to get away. Really not the case this time.

Anyway, here's a bit of what it looks like at 141 and 44, though I took these at around 2 and apparently it's risen a couple of feet since then:

Blueline29 wrote:

FiXr0dZ!1

did it rain there?

marco wrote:

Blueline29 wrote:

FiXr0dZ!1

LOL!

glen a richter wrote:did it rain there?

Just a bit, yes. Some places outstate took something like 10" of rain in a day and a half or so; we were better off here. Last I heard, 44 was doing OK but the water was still rising, and given that the only other major east-west highway in the area has already been shut down for 2 years for construction, it's safe to say traffic's pretty well franked in these parts.







Bizarrely festive atmosphere down there today. I didn't get it. I mean, yeah, I was an onlooker too, but I was more or less taking pictures to document things as they were happening. There were people down there having their kids pose for pictures next to the water as though they were at the Botanical Garden or the zoo or something. It was a little unseemly, actually.

They showed footage of Eureka HS's athletic fields on the news this afternoon and all that can be seen of any of it is the top couple of inches of 2 scoreboards. No dugouts, backstops, nothin'. Their fields flood pretty much any time there's a significant amount of rain, but that's the worst I can remember seeing them. And what really sucks for the students is that their spring break was this week.

Here's a helicopter video showing aerial footage of the flooding:
http://videos.stltoday.com/p/video?id=1784408

All I can think is that "state final four 2 times" is about the lamest banner ever. Either win something or don't put up something about how you didn't.

My in-laws live close to the Meramec just south of the Fabick plant, and when they got home from work on Friday the water was almost as high as it was in 93. It receded pretty quickly though, and their neighborhood stayed dry.

This is the craziest picture out of all of that... damn.

Hope nobody on this board had their house flooded or sustain severe water damage- thats just something that never goes away...

Blueline29 wrote:After seeing from a distance (from 270) while on my way home from school the havoc the flood was wreaking on 44, I decided to see if I could get anywhere close to 44 and 141 to see what was happening. I thought I'd probably meet with some resistance; during the '93 flood, a friend and I stood on one of the on-ramps for 40 near Chesterfield Mall and had National Guardsmen yelling at us to get away. Really not the case this time.

Anyway, here's a bit of what it looks like at 141 and 44, though I took these at around 2 and apparently it's risen a couple of feet since then:

My son was stuck in that mess. Took him 2 hours to get from I270 to 141.