Locals are capturing the rising water around St. Louis and beyond
The waters are rising in the St. Louis area. Forecasters don’t expect the river to crest until Monday, and then it will still be 10 feet below its high of 49.5 feet in 1993.
Still, it’s quite a sight to see the waters lapping at the steps of the Arch. Readers of STLtoday have started to send their images into our IWitness “spring flooding” album. Reader “Mike” uploaded the photo to the left today.
Plus, here’s a link to a slideshow with the latest tagged photos that readers have uploaded on Flickr in the past couple of weeks.
And here’s another batch from Flickr looking beyond St. Louis, taking in searches in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Davenport, Iowa; and Quincy, Ill.
One of those photos is below, shot by Raymond Rue, used here under a Creative Commons license. The caption said, “As the Great Mississippi River spills over, the water rises at the waste plant. “It was uploaded on Tuesday.
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Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
