Flood Threats 10:55am Tuesday

It's been raining, hard, in the midwest Monday and Tuesday 18-Mar-08. When it rains hard in this area, the threat of flooding looms which prompted me, as President of the St. Louis Live Steamers and who has our track, equipment and tools in a known flood plain at Kircher Park, to send the following message out to the membership.

"This informational message is to let you know that because of the heavy rains, the Meramac river conditions are being closely watched in relation to river stage/flooding. As posted by the National Weather Service, the Meramac river is expected to crest at 25.5 feet Friday 21-Mar at 1pm at Eureka. Flood stage for this point is 18 feet. (source: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=lsx)

We know that when the Meramac river rises it will cause Flat Creek to back up. But we do not have a correlation between Meramac stage and the impact on Flat Creek. We have known the park area is in a flood plane, and have taken measures to minimize our risk exposure including elevating the containers off the ground and putting lot's of drain pipes under the track to minimize washouts."

Lucky I was off today with my visiting parents to catch what was going on.