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Published: 2008-06-19 20:50:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 899; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 0
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Rising waters. The blue chicory flower in the bottom center may not survive the flood.Related content
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Flood gives great opportunities to take awesome pictures like that 
Just love it.
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Sorry to hear about the flooding. I know in places like Iowa, it's gotten pretty intense. I'm in MI, and we really lucked out, we haven't had any flooding or serious damage from these summer storms. (Not much, anyway.) We've had some power outages, a lot of down trees...stuff like that.
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I don't think the flooding from St. Louis south will be too bad. The Missouri River which joins the Mississippi just north of St. Louis isn't flooding, we should experience only moderate flooding and most likely no homes will be in danger here.
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It's sad to hear about the flooding, but you've really manged to make beauty of it! fantastic shot 
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Thank you for the nice comment.
There's always flooding along the river, this one is just a little larger in scope than usual and has lasted longer.
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WEll bad as that is....at least it's not affecting homes there.. it's awful elsewhere.. I don't know how people cope with that..
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If you build a house by the river sooner or later it's going to flood. It's hard to avoid tornadoes, hail, wind and most weather happenings but you can avoid flooding by building on high ground. The crops are a different story. Still, that rich, fertile soil produces some bumper crops in good years....makes up for losing one occasionally though we'll pay higher prices this coming year.
Those folks that lost their houses.....most will build right back in the same place or clean up and think it won't happen again.....I don't understand it.
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Well see I'm an insurance agent. I write a lot of Flood insurance. The government is looking at repetitive loss locations with a very close eye now, and in many locales,any rebuilding will have to be done to mitigate the exposure or eliminate it altogether. Not much you can do about the crops, I guess, its just bad that its happening with all the other things going on.. food shortages because of the diversion to biofuel growing..etc and the crop losses in both fronts is in the billions at this point... ..People dont really understand what the "floodplain definitions" are. They say "Im in a 500 year flood zone" and think that means that it will only flood once in 500 years.. what it really means is there is a 1%chance in every one of the next 500 years that a major flood will occur.Chances are that frequency will increase too with all the global warming going on..
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These flowers look so radiant. I like this kind of flowers, they prefered dry plces, it's sad... But it's great photo.
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Thanks. Yes, they do prefer dry and they are a beautiful and brilliant blue.
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that looks beautiful! Is this park often flooded?
I like the tree's reflections in the water - the reflected green of the leaves looks even more lively there
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Thanks. Yes, it floods occasionally but rarely to this degree. Usually it just covers the road by the river for a few days, this time it's already been 3 months but most of the park has remained open until yesterday when it was closed. The water will probably be waist high in 3-4 more days.
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wow, that's quite a lot! Do you have fish in the water, then?
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The park is closed and may have 3-4 feet of water in it but no houses are in danger here. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to recede very quickly. Though it should crest in another 3 days it may be a month before the park is open again. My dog misses his walks there already.
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Poor old thing, not getting your walkies. The dog not you Gil
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