Thursday, June 23, 2011

flood

Recently Bonnie and I visited Parkville, Missouri which is a little town that is essentially part of Kansas City. It is situated right in the Missouri River. It is a really pretty and quaint town with some cool shops and restaurants. If you live outside of the midwest you may not have heard but the Missouri River is causing some major flooding from the Dakotas all the way down to Missouri. Parkville is bracing for its turn. The pictures below are sandbag levies the town has put in place to hopefully hold back the flood waters if and when they come.


We visited several stores while we were in Parkville and one of them took special care to highlight where the infamous flood of 1993 crested.
This shops was actually a little ways up a hill. You can see it circled in yellow in this photo from 93.
It was staggering to see how high the water got and we hope that they are spared this summer.

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