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Date: 6/21/2008 Album ID: 543261
Photos by Robert Cohen and Christian Gooden/Post-Dispatch
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Local residents continue working to hold back flood waters from the Mississippi River.
A doe bounds through a flooded field near the Chipley family farm early Saturday off Hwy C in St. Peters. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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It's always been her favorite color, explained Milton Duvall as he and his wife Margaret Bootsie Duvall prepared to leave their Clarksville home for a shower at their son's home in Creve Coeur Saturday. The Duvalls finally felt their home was safe enough to leave it after a massive sandbagging effort appeared to be holding in their town along the Mississippi River. The Duvalls' home had survived both the floods of 1973 and 1993 before last week's flood. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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llinois Conservation Police officer Jared Morrison, left, talks with Charles Goodwin,a deck hand with the Grafton Ferry, after Goodwin docked his boat on Main Street in downtown Grafton. Goodwin, who lives on the west end of Grafton, left his car downtown last Tuesday in anticipation of the flood and boated from home so that he could drive to Jerseyville for groceries. Christian Gooden | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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It'll be the happiest day of my life when these pumps turn off, said Richard Cottrell of St. Louis as he refused to venture far from the hum that sent floodwater from the Mississippi River back over a massive sandbag wall surrounding his historic home in Clarksville. Cottrell, owner of the oldest house in the river town, had spent more than $300,000 on purchasing and renovating the home, known as the Elgin-Cottrell House, circa 1845. Cottrell, who runs an antique store in the Central West End, hasn't left the property since floodwater threatened the home last Sunday. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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Richard Cottrell refused to venture far from the hum that sent floodwater from the Mississippi River back over a massive sandbag wall surrounding his historic home in Clarksville. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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Just in case Richard Cottrell's home took water, he moved all the antique furnishings upstairs. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch<P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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Sightseers like Jeannine De Koster of Bridgeton could only get part of the way down the steps toward Leonor K. Sullivan Blvd. from the Arch grounds Saturday as high waters on the Mississippi River prompted authorites to fence off the area for safety. Christian Gooden | Post-Dispatch <P><br><div align=right><b><a href=http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=40151><img src=http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/sexyarrow.gif border=0><font color=#990000> View more photos of local flooding</a></font></b></div><br><br>
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