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CEDAR HILL, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com) -
First severe storms, now flooding. Missouri's getting hit again. Rivers are rising. Roads are shutting down. People are fleeing for high ground, if it's not already too late. "Hopefully it doesn't come up any higher we'll have to move this again," said Kathy Davis, owner of the Club Villa Magnolia in Cedar Hill. She and her helpers were moving tables and chairs upstairs with the river right under the restaurant floor Sunday.
"I get very flustered it's just kind of .. you know .. it's just no fun anymore," Davis said.
Cedar Hill road was closed again. The Big River was up about 15 feet from normal.
The sand volleyball courts were under water. The nets that keep the balls from going into the river were "in" the river, themselves. So was much of the driveway; along with the 8 unit apartment building across the road.
"At 3:30 in the morning they started moving some of their things out, that's when the water started coming in," Davis said. "This apartment right here at the end -- it came in the back."
Forecasters expected the Meramec River was expected to crest Monday anywhere from four to eight feet above flood stage in St. Louis County.
In Fenton there were rising concerns the Meramec would end up covering Yarnell Road and shutting it down.
There were people stranded at a campground at Meramec State Park near Sullivan; the road out was underwater.
Davis was hoping there'd be no repeat of last year.
"It got as tall as I as, 5' 5", inside the first floor...this is the mark it go to," she said pointing to a window pane above her head.
Another flood of '08 would make it hard to try to keep things going here.
"If you knew where it was going to stop it would be so much easier. We could know how high to move."
Forecasters expected the Big River to crest Monday just 6 inches higher than it was Sunday.
But as Davis found out last year, more rain changes everything.
"I get very flustered it's just kind of .. you know .. it's just no fun anymore," Davis said.
Cedar Hill road was closed again. The Big River was up about 15 feet from normal.
The sand volleyball courts were under water. The nets that keep the balls from going into the river were "in" the river, themselves. So was much of the driveway; along with the 8 unit apartment building across the road.
"At 3:30 in the morning they started moving some of their things out, that's when the water started coming in," Davis said. "This apartment right here at the end -- it came in the back."
Forecasters expected the Meramec River was expected to crest Monday anywhere from four to eight feet above flood stage in St. Louis County.
In Fenton there were rising concerns the Meramec would end up covering Yarnell Road and shutting it down.
There were people stranded at a campground at Meramec State Park near Sullivan; the road out was underwater.
Davis was hoping there'd be no repeat of last year.
"It got as tall as I as, 5' 5", inside the first floor...this is the mark it go to," she said pointing to a window pane above her head.
Another flood of '08 would make it hard to try to keep things going here.
"If you knew where it was going to stop it would be so much easier. We could know how high to move."
Forecasters expected the Big River to crest Monday just 6 inches higher than it was Sunday.
But as Davis found out last year, more rain changes everything.
