by admin | Jun 27, 2008 | Weather
An emergency worker at Winfield says the volunteers and workers there have responded admirably, despite the crushing news this morning that floodwaters breached the last in tact levee in Lincoln County. Brad Farber is coordinating the American Red Cross emergency...
by admin | Jun 20, 2008 | Weather
A tense waiting game is being played out in northeast Missouri. The Mississippi River, swollen from the heavy rains that saturated Iowa, laps up against temporary sandbag levees as residents desperately attempt to keep it from overflowing communities and farmland...
by admin | Jun 18, 2008 | News
Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) has visited some of the flood-stricken areas of northeast Missouri, touting Hannibal and Canton. The region has been hit hard by the rising Mississippi River. During his visit, Blunt praised volunteers as well as local, state, and federal...
by admin | Jun 15, 2008 | Weather
Fear of flooding has prompted Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (R-MO) to mobilize 165 Missouri National Guard members to reinforce levees on the upper Mississippi River. That brings to 175 the number of Guardsmen mobilized by Kinder to support emergency...
by admin | Feb 14, 2008 | Weather
Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) has mobilized thirty members of the National Guard to help people in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger Counties recover from this week’s ice storm. Their main job will be going door to door to check on the residents of the areas. AmerenUE...
