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Weather

4:13 pm

Thu April 18, 2013

Flooding causes road closures in mid-Missouri

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Old road closure signs

By Russell Chapin

Flooding from thunder storms has caused a large number of road closures in mid-Missouri, Thursday.

Politics

4:57 pm

Wed March 27, 2013

Congressmen aim to improve river management during droughts and floods

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Illinois Congressmen want improved river management during droughts and floods

By St. Louis Public Radio

Two freshman Congressmen from southern Illinois want the Army Corps of Engineers to start thinking of ways it can coordinate river management to keep cargo traffic flowing during droughts or floods.

Agriculture

5:37 pm

Thu September 27, 2012

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

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"It is pure sand dunes," Atchison County Sheriff Dennis Martin said, of Corning, Mo. land still covered with sand a year after surging Missouri River waters receded. "Before the weeds started growing up, it looked like the moon."

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

Down the road, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the flood's casualties. It closed after waters rose three feet high. Then the water sat there for months.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

A mud line marks how high the waters went on the 1893 Gothic Revival building.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

A toilet graveyard sits behind the church.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

The one-room 1912 schoolhouse behind the church is still caked with dried-up mud the river left behind. It also sustained water damage in 1952 and 1993.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

The waters put this schoolhouse stove under water. Church elders don't know if and how they will re-open the church.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

But Sheriff Martin says Corning is resilient. "We're going to see crop ground ... that has been renovated and the expense they are going to try to get this back in production has got to be phenomenal. But it is their life … it’s their home."

By Abbie Fentress Swanson

Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

Rivers

8:53 am

Mon July 30, 2012

Mo. River gets boost from northern reservoirs

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The Missouri River near Rocheport, Mo.

By Associated Press

The same reservoirs in northern states that were blamed for last year's flooding on the Missouri River are now giving the river a boost during a severe drought.

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