Kircher Park Evacuation Thursday

It was a beautiful first day of spring and SLLS celebrated (sort of) by evacuating Kircher Park. Flat Creek, which was slowly draining when members arrived at noon, was no longer moving and had risen 5 or 6 inches to cover the bottom of the bridge I-beam by the time we left around 4. Evidence of the rising water was all around us. The road drains had filled with water, which was starting to creep out of them.

Thanks to all that helped: Ax and Marie K., Paul S., Sam B., George R., Bill & wife Linda W., Joel P., Rich E. and Peter & Nancy N.

All rolling stock, all electric tools, hand tools, items deemed valuable or hard to replace (like the wooden water tank) were loaded into cars, vans, trucks and a trailer and removed from the park.

Joel took Datum points with the transit for future Meramec River / Flat Creek water level correlations.

Rich E. brought his welder out and put a firm bead of 'metal glue' on all the container pad connection points to firmly secure them. Loose outdoor items which would float away were put inside the much emptier car barn container. The main power was again shut off at the breaker. The container doors were locked together, but ajar, to allow water in and minimize the risk of the containers floating away or worse, lifting the footers out of the ground.

Hope for the best (water only to the floors), maybe we'll avoid the worst (a 43' Meramec crest would be at the roof of the containers).