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Massive rains have caused the Missouri river to flood many of the cities and villages around it
According to what Bill Gordon, Holt County Commissioner, said, it seems that the water is coming right their way and they expect it to top earthen and sandbag levees fortified recently around Craig. This little town has about 300 residents and its downtown includes a bank, a restaurant and a post office, according to what Gordon said. He went on saying that these businesses have already moved their office, in anticipation of the flood that is coming their way. It seems that the people in town are also a bit stressed out, especially because the Missouri River levee breaches occurred about three miles south and west of Craig.
Craig is not the first town in Missouri which is in danger, as others have already been affected by the river’s levee breaches. For instance, farmlands and homes have been flooded in recent days in a village called Big Lake and Atchison County north of Holt County also faced some serious problems due to the flooding. However, people voluntarily evacuated their homes and no one got hurt, fortunately. The flooding has closed numerous highways in the two counties as well as Big Lake State Park. In Craig, people are expected to be evacuated soon enough, in order to prevent anyone getting hurt. It is not known exactly what losses this little will suffer, but people are optimist and they hope that their houses will be left with little damage after the flooding passes. The horror started a couple of weeks ago when the Missouri River swollen and started flooding towns near it. The river created a lot of problems, especially in big cities. “There was some talk this morning about more than 150,000 cubic feet per second coming out of Oahe,” said Jerry Compton, working on Sunday at a convenience store in Missouri Valley. Thus, on Saturday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers increased water releases from two dams – Oahe above Pierre, South Dakota’s capital, and Big Bend Dam just downstream, in order to make room for the water which may have gathered from the rain which was expected to hit the area at the beginning of this week. The bad news is that peak releases are planned until the end of August and high flows are expected until late December.
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