Our Leaky Levee

Yesterday I was going to try to ride my bike up the Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede's Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we're asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot of concerns.

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