Below are the latest NWS River Forecast Center flood graphics- click HERE to view them or for personal future reference.
The first one is Osawatomie showing the stage on the Marais des Cygnes River at 48.17 feet - down from the maximum recorded stage of 49.19 - or 1.11 feet below the 1951 all-time record of 50.3 feet.
The next image is downstream along the Marais- the small community of La Cygne in northeastern Linn County-KS.. Here- the river appears to have crested at 36.07 feet at 5 am this morning- or only 0.12 of a foot below their 1951 record crest of 36.19 feet.
Still of concern are the two major highways going south from Kansas City.
U.S. 69 remains closed- covered for miles by floodwater south of Miami County-KS..
Television news helicopter video shows U.S. 71 now resembling a causeway over a 5-mile long lake from floodwaters of the Marais des Cygnes- Marmaton and Little Osage rivers in southern Bates and northern Vernon Counties Missouri- 50 to 75 miles south of Downtown K.C..
U.S. 71 is still open- according to a call to the MO Highway Patrol- but "water is nearing the roadway in several places" a trooper said.
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