Thread: Mississippi River

From the looks of all the water in Okla, Ar, and Missouri, Il it I going to get real interesting again this year. Delta going to be flooding so probably going to hold a lot of water in big 4 again which if we keep getting rain all over we are going to have another high water spring. Going to be bad for lots of folks especially for those affected by the Arkansas this year. Already some bad flooding off some of it's tributary's.

I hope the big 4 do have a high water spring. Gives the fish a little more of a chance, and plus I like to jig in some certain ironwoods and grenada needs to about 210' for that to happen... I hate it for the folks with places along the miss river though

Farther North here, but this is expected to be worse than the flood of 1993 around Ste. Genevieve, MO., and that was a record flood. It's getting really bad up here. Friends who farm the bottom lands along the Mississippi have moved all their equipment to higher ground and are trying to move grain as we speak. Not good....

A cousin is sending pictures and video of the Branson, MO area. A lot has been built on the river/lake front and it's all flooded.

Originally Posted by SlabMeister

River is predicted to hit 48.5' on January 13th at Arkansas City. The river crested at 53.1 in 2011. I'm not sure if the predictions take into account last nights rain. I have several friends that are busy moving furniture, raising or moving houses and hunting camps. I called a very good house mover today for a friend they are booked solid moving and raising structures. This could get interesting with the water this high this time of the year.

ARKANSAS CITY 37 30.0 +0.6 30.6 32.1 33.7 35.8 37.9 48.0 01/13A
Shows crest on 13th at 48.0 as of this morning

saying Vicksburg is gonna crest the 16th at 54.0. Flood stage is at 43 OUCH They're getting ready to close deer season along the Mississippi River for the year in some places

I hope they are crying wolf. V'burg is just under 38 feet now and is projected to climb nearly a foot a day until the 3rd if January. (That's on the 5 day forecast). I can't see it rising