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May 23, 2019 | By: AP
Recent rains are creating new flooding risks along the Missouri River.
The Army Corps of Engineers says about 50 levees in Missouri could be
overtopped by Saturday as high water levels move downstream. Most of the
threatened area is farmland.
Recent storms in the central U.S. are also causing flooding woes in Kansas and
Oklahoma.
The Missouri is expected to crest Thursday at 36.1 feet near the
town of Glasgow, Missouri, overtopping agricultural levees and inundating some
homes, highways and parkland. The National Weather Service has warned of
moderate flooding in several other river towns.
The river has been flooding off and on since March, breaching dozens of levees
and causing billions of dollars of damage to farmland, homes and businesses
across the Midwest.
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