All this water from the major flooding in our southern MetroRegion is emptying into the Truman flood-control reservoir above the Lake of the Ozarks on the Osage River.
You can see by the graph below how the lake level has risen by more than 10 feet since June 25- with the bulk of the floodwaters still upstream.
Related to flood-control projects stretched to their capacity by the record Central U.S. rains- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projected massive Lake Texoma- which is on the Red River at the Oklahoma-Texas state line- would crest at 640 feet on Thursday and send water over its spillway- producing major flooding downstream.
"The spillway has been used only twice - in 1957 and 1990"- according to the Associated Press story.
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