March 18, 2009

March 2008 Flooding

A glance back at flood scenes and aftermath from a year ago in southeast Missouri.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com A group of nine deer stand at the edge of the flood waters near Dutchtown on Wednesday morning, March 19, 2008, finding their habitat significantly altered.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com John Bechtold, a Missouri Department of Transportation Traffic Specialist, talks on a cell phone after a truck was washed off of Hwy 34 west of Jackson on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com After returning to Allenville Friday, March 21, 2008, Trevor Fluegge, 8, explored the standing water behind his home. Allenville residents say that the flooding was worse than was seen in 1982, 1993, 1995, or 2002.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com An escavator reinforces a levee, moving dirt from its base to the top, between Chaffee and Oran on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in Scott County.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Hubble Creek overflowed its banks and swept through Jackson City Park on Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Normally low enough to drive through with a vehicle, Hubble Creek rushed through Jackson City Park Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2008.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com A truck blazes through the standing water on Broadway near the intersection with Caruthers on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com This photo looking into Allenville was taken from the bridge over the Diversion Channel Wednesday afternoon.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com A mobile home is surrounded by water on Hwy 25 outside Delta on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Hubble Creek rumbled through Jackson City Park Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2008.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com A home is completely surrounded by water in the low land at Dutchtown on Thursday, March 20, 2008.

FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com Floodwaters covered Helen Street in Chaffee Wednesday afternoon where two vehicles were stranded near the intersection with Highway 77.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com A truck makes its way down water-covered Route EE outside Delta on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Some goats, dogs, chickens, turkeys, pigs and a horse were lost to flooding in Allenville. The state said that the remains must be burned.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Scott Hayden's van sets stalled after he passed through flood water on Route EE outside Delta on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Gerald Sebastian saw his granddaughter, Kaylee Williams, 2, Friday, March 21, 2008, for the first time since she and the rest of the family was evacuated Wednesday from their Allenville home. Sebastian, who stayed in Allenville through the flooding, tore out the home's ruined carpets , left, earlier Friday. The Sebastians had about six inches in their home.

JOHN SACHEN ~ Delta Fire Protection District Delta firefighters Captain Mark Perry, and his sons, firefighters Eric and Jim Perry rescued a woman and her three young children from the 400 block of Kidd St. in Delta Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2008, after the family was trapped due to flood waters.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Volunteers occupy County Road 261 in Scott County, filling sand bags to reinforce a levee on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Vehicles plowed through several feet of water along Mt. Auburn Rd. in Cape Girardeau near Kingshighway Tuesday morning, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com The swollen Mississippi River, facing south, from atop the closed Broadway flood gate in downtown Cape Girardeau.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Farmers and volunteers scramble with sandbags to reinforce a levee between Chaffee and Oran on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in Scott County.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Seven-year-old Adrianna Medley played in a boat Friday, March 21, 2008, that was used to help ecacuate Medley and her family earlier in the week in Allenville, where flood waters were up to four feet deep in some areas.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com LaCroix Creek overflowed its banks, reaching the edge of the Osage Center parking lot on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

KIT DOYLE ~ kdoyle@semissourian.com Water fowl had no difficulty accessing the lake in Capaha Park Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2008.

AARON EISENHAUER ~ aeisenhauer@semissourian.com Fedex driver Jay McMullin helps 78-year-old Odell Bunch into the delivery truck after Bunch's Ford Ranger was swept off of Hwy 34 by flood waters on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 west of Jackson.

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