The drama continues into early Sunday afternoon- as levees protecting this southwestern Miami County city are being sandbagged in attempt to keep back the near-record flood on the Pottawatomie Creek meeting the already-flooded Marais des Cygnes River (Click on and refer to Google map/sat hybrid image below). It sounds like the floodwaters have won in some areas of the city.
It's unknown how many in that city of 4600 residents have evacuated their homes. Businesses are heard evacuating equipment from threatened areas.
Most of the Marais des Cygne watershed- below Pomona and Melvern flood-control dams as well as Pottawatomie Creek watershed recorded from 11 to 20 inches of rain the past 3 days.
Also threatened downstream from Osawatomie is the Linn County towns of La Cygne and Trading Post.
U.S. 69 remains closed in Linn County- and U.S. 71 is threatened 20 miles east across the Missouri state line between Butler and Nevada. U.S. 54 is also closed west of Nevada
All the heavier rain has now moved south of these areas. Of concern now is heavy rain in already record-flooded Independence & Coffeyville-KS. near the Oklahoma border.
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