ST. LOUIS (AP) — Residents of a small Missouri town were busy Tuesday sandbagging yet another levee being threatened by a seemingly ceaseless flood.
1 / 2Alley Ringhausen uses sandbags to shore up the wall he and other volunteers built around the Riverview House in Elsah, Ill., as floodwater from the Mississippi River seeps through a makeshift barrier on Monday, May 6, 2019.
Waves of flooding that began in March have caused significant damage to farmland, homes and businesses throughout the Midwest. At least seven deaths since March have been blamed on flooding. Rivers at many communities have been above flood stage for more than six weeks. Several levees in northeast Missouri have been overtopped or breached as the Mississippi River reached near-historic levels over the past week. Lincoln County Emergency Director Jim Sharp said the levee at Winfield is holding for now, but many others near it didn't.
The National Weather Service issued flood watches Tuesday for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. Communities along the Mississippi River remained under flood warnings. The river remained closed at St. Louis due to high water, and several locks and dams between Clarksville, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, were closed.
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