Flooding 10:30pm Tuesday

An update: "I wanted to share with you an update from this morning to the Kircher Park / Flat Creek flood situation. As of Tuesday evening, the National Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service revised their Eureka Memamec River forecast upward to predict a crest of 37 feet on Friday morning 7am. Although we still do not know what a water reading on the Meramec river would mean for Flat Creek and Kircher park, we decided to remove some key assets from the park while we had time and it was safe.

I'd like to thank Joel (and his van), Henry, Al, Ax and Marie, and help from my visiting parents Peter and Nancy, who came out in the rain for an inpromptu work session. We removed the key assets. Also thanks to Sam who earlier had turned the main breaker off.

Other items were moved from the floor to workbench tops and the plastic lumber under the switch bench was anchored with the placement of four pieces of 1.75" heavy-wall tubing on top of the pile, and securing other outside items.

It was observed that flat creek was a couple of inches from the bottom of the concrete road deck of the bridge (already covering most of the I-beams). There was standing water across the south end of the road and across the grass. The storm drains were no longer draining. At the northwest end of the track where the mainline/service curves start, the water was nearly at track level on both sides.

We shall see what the river will do...."
Denis