“is the historic area of St. Charles at risk?”
I didn’t get down to the riverfront last night, but from Second and Adams I didn’t see any signs of flooding. The Missouri isn’t as high there as it has been in the past.
I just talked to a guy I work with who lives in New Town. He said the soccer fields are flooded, but there is no flooding at all where he lives or the on the road to his home.
He should feel very lucky!! This thing is not over yet, and these levees will not hold that kind of pressure forever. Next time it could be that Iowa holds, Winfield holds, and further down from the Elm Point Levee breaches closer to Muddy Mayberry. They are on borrowed time and the value of that place probably just dropped in half. Surely he can see what could and most likely will happen. New Town is 2 1/2 miles from the river. Iowa had flooding 7+ miles from the river bed on the exact same type farm land. If that place doesn’t flood, the sewers will be backed up, roads will be shut off and they will be an island.