Post-Dispatch photos: Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Date: 5/1/2012 Album ID: 1461708
Photos by Christian Gooden/
Photographs by staff photographers
A pedestrian passes a flower and candle memorial outside Kilroy's Sports Bar on 7th Street on Monday, April 30, 2012, where Alfred Goodman of Waterloo died and several other people were injured when a Saturday afternoon storm caused a large tent structure to collapse on patrons after a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium.
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Cairo, Ill. Mayor Tyrone Coleman talks in his office on Friday, April 27, 2012 about the record setting flood of 2011 that forced the city to be evacuated.  Water from the Ohio River rose to a record level of 61.72 on the floodwall surrounding the city and only began going down after the US Army Corps of Engineers used explosives to breach the Birds Point levee in Missouri.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Sink holes that appeared on Commercial Street in Cairo, Ill. during the record water levels on the Ohio River last spring as seen on Friday, April 27, 2012.  The city says it is waiting on money, $1 million dollars, from FEMA to repairs the hole on Commerical Street.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Blues center Scott Nichol (left) is penalized two minutes for high sticking while hitting Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty in first period action during a second-round playoff game between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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Los Angeles center Mike Richards (10) scores the first goal over Blues goaltender Brian Elliott 31 seconds into a second-round playoff game between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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Los Angeles center Jeff Carter scores the third goal of the first period past Blues defenseman Kris Russell (4) and goaltender Brian Elliott during a second-round playoff game between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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Blues defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo (28) reacts after Los Angeles center Anze Kopitar (not pictured) scored past Blues goaltender Brian Elliott in first period action during a second-round playoff game between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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Linesman Steve Miller tries to halt a skirmish as he holds back Blues center David Backes (42) from Los Angeles center Anze Kopitar in second period action during a second-round playoff game between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.  Meanwhile, Blues defenseman Carlo Colaicovo (28) tussles with Los Angeles right wing Dustin Brown.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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A tempoary levee made of sand bags, plastic tarps and hesco barriers at the Birds Point levee, that was breached with explosives in May of 2011, currently provides flood protection to 55 feet as seen on Friday, 27 April, 2012.  The levee was breached, flooding more than 100,000 acres of farm land, in an effort to lower water levels on the floodwall surrounding Cario, Ill..
 was The corps halted its floodway repairs in December after spending $20 million to shore up the levee to 55 feet of flood protection at each of the blasting spots.
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