Flooded highway

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Austin Decker, left, and John Taylor of SEMO Services cruise in a boat Monday along a flooded Highway C in Menfro, Missouri. Decker and Taylor, BNSF Railway workers, took an airboat along Bois Brule Creek to measure the depth of floodwater on the railroad tracks. The depth was five feet. Flooding from the Mississippi River caused problems all over Southeast Missouri.

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