Hello Jane...good to hear from you. I was going to past and ask if you were still looking at this page. I'm curious how you made out after the Kansas floods last year (meaning, did you make any money from crops). Before we visited central Missouri before HW applied for the job, we thought it was vast flat treeless plain. It's not at all like that...almost the whole state is hilly, and it is wooded where not kept in farm fields. Downtown Columbia is high and near a drainage source, so while the streams are "flashy", they are not rivers and would only flood in very intense storms. Our house is on bedrock at the top of a ridge rather far above a stream, so pretty much no way for it to flood except for poor drainage off part of roof.

The Missouri River is maybe 8 or 10 miles south and southwest of downtown and it has probably come up 10 feet and will come up another couple feet, but this is still 7 feet below last May(?). Most of the heav rain has been south and east and drains into the Ohio and Mississipi (and the Ohio drains into the Mississippi). The Missouri has a floodplain near here, but in some areas it is relatively narrow...between limestone cliffs, although off to the the northwest it is a couple miles wide. The present engineered channel is completely different than where the river was during Lewis and Clark days. Excuse the non-metric units...feet is what is used on the guage reports.

What's with mid April? Last year there was a very hard freeze with the leaves and flowers out, today, tonight, and tomorrow there may be mixed rain and snow showers. I'm ready for spring.
Chris