Originally Posted by ghak99:
1993 levels in many areas and even a few places that have exceeded the 1993 marks. It's a mess to say the least, but it appears to be cresting now so it should hopefully start falling soon.
It's obvious there are way too many fucktarded truck drivers on the road though. A small blacktop caught a serious flow of truckers who jumped on their phones to find their own detours instead of using the suggested loop. The blacktop isn't even wide enough for two trucks to meet head to head in many places putting multiple trucks in the ditches and at least two crashed blocking the lanes. Multiple tubes are starting to collapse under the constant weights and speeds. One truck even managed to dump it's load of 2" rock on a blacktop. :-) Multiple rigs tried to use flooded gravel roads and firmly parked themselves right in the middle of them. The tow bills on these trucks in bfe are MASSIVE.
Had this conversation the other day about how if it just keeps raining it's going to be 1993 again. [Reply]
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“By the looks of the current MoDOT travel map, Missouri is closed!” Troop B of the Missouri Highway Patrol joked on social media.
On Friday, I had to turn around on 59 just south of Tarkio. Water was over the road for a couple hundred yards. The river crossing just before that was sketchy as hell. I was glad to be out of a low lying area. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bugeater:
Looks just as bad today as it did at the end of March
I drove through there last week on Tuesday to get to Lincoln. They had Hwy 2 open one lane in each direction, but we're only able to do it by building up the road. They used gravel and compacted it down. You could only go 25 mph over that section.
I spent the end of my week in Omaha so I drove down 29. 2 was still open at that point but it ended up closing down with all of the rain. It's a mess there. [Reply]
Missouri river in central Missouri. You could pick out several towns along it and find similar pics. A few of the towns had given up the pumping fight and suggested evacuation along with killing power and water as it moved in. Brunswick is one of the smaller towns where the railroad, the national guard, and a lot of volunteers built temporary levys and sandbag berms to try to hold it off but eventually they had too many big levy breaks to manage the rise.
The Core better hope a bus load of crazy Missouri river rats don't decide to load up and pay them a visit. That 75,000 cubic foot of water per second being released up stream isn't helping things. [Reply]
