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Residents check status of flooded homes
Date: 6/24/2008 Album ID: 545002
Photos by Laurie Skrivan and Erik M. Lunsford
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A number of Lincoln County residents returned to check on their flooded homes Tuesday, as water continued inundating communities behind breached levees along the Mississippi River.
It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I thought there would be a bunch more water out here, said Grant Keays of Winfield, who spent Tuesday morning checking the pump at his house, making sure the flood waters kept outside of his home on Patton Street in the Winfield Acres subdivision. I thinkg the levee breaches up north of us saved us, said Keays. Laurie Skrivan | 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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During the flood of '93 I was in high school, I was so young. This time it just hurts more to see. I just had to come out to see my parents house, said Mark Porter, who spent his day off looking the flood waters in Winfield, Mo. Tuesday morning. The Porter property is about 30 feet from the failed Winfield levee, which has been overtopped and is visible in the upper left portion of the frame. Laurie Skrivan | 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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During the flood of '93 I was in high school, I was so young. This time it just hurts more to see. I just had to come out to see my parents house, said Mark Porter, who spent his day off looking at the flood waters in Winfield Tuesday morning. Laurie Skrivan | 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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During the flood of '93 I was in high school, I was so young. This time it just hurts more to see. I just had to come out to see my parents house, said Mark Porter, who spent his day off looking the flood waters in Winfield Tuesday morning. Laurie Skrivan | 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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Garbage and corn stalks float in the flooded waters along Crenshaw Road in Winfield Acres subdivision Tuesday morning near Winfield, Mo. Laurie Skrivan | 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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John Sisti and his 13-year-old daughter Maranda Sisti (not pictured) take refuge from a heavy thunderstorm in their flooded house in Foley, Mo. on Tuesday afternoon. Sisti used a boat to access his property, which flooded after water spilled over the surrounding levees. Erik M. Lunsford | 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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John Sisti and his 13-year-old daughter Maranda Sisti (not pictured) rescue a pair of kittens and a cat Tuesday from the bannister and roof of a building at their flooded house in Foley on Tuesday afternoon. Erik M. Lunsford | 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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John Sisti and his 13-year-old daughter Maranda Sisti rescue a pair of kittens and a cat Tuesday from the bannister and roof of a building at their flooded house in Foley on Tuesday afternoon. Erik M. Lunsford | 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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Flood waters are begining to wash over a corn field just south of Hwy B in St. Charles County on Tuesday. Residents of the area are parking their boats along the highway while they go into town to get supplies.David Carson | 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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A fox makes his way across a pile of debris flooding in the flood waters of the Mississippi River in St. Charles County along where Hwy B would normally be.David Carson | 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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I hate snakes said Katie Fortuna as she clings tightly to a oar to fend off a snakes she fears might be in the brush near the Mallard Point Duck Club off of Hwy B in St. Charles County Tuesday. Fortuna was with her husband Doug Fortuna, and friend Doug Baugh, the land manager at Mallard Point, who were tying up a fuel tank that had floated away. The structure pictured in the back sits on stilts 15 feet above the ground.David Carosn | 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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Lauren Thompson, left, Penny Rooney, and Eddie Roony unload the contents of the family's home in Kampsville from the boat into the back of vehicle along Hwy B in St. Charles County on Tuesday. It's not that often it gets up in your second floor Penny Rooney who said the last time water reach the second floor of their home was in 1993. The water in the Rooney's home is currently a few inches below the ceiling on the first floor.David Carson | 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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