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I'm afraid it won't get much better today...we're 80 miles or so west of Poplar Bluff, and we got another 3+ inches of rain last night here and the majority just skirted us...and there's an 80% chance of rain again today, and 50%/70% chance for Saturday/Sunday, respectively. I know Rayburn Pennington lives in Poplar Bluff, but I *believe* he's upstream from the main levee breach, and iirc his house sits on a bit of a hill...but I don't think he's too far from the Black River itself? From there south and east has been taking a pounding, and they can't seem to catch a break...they've had like 3 nights in a row of deadly tornadoes, plus the flooding, with more in store tonight.

As of this morning, we've gotten over 14" of rain since Thursday at our house... a good friend of ours about 15 miles to our north/west is well over 20" of rain at his house, and it gets heavier from there. Schools around here were shut down for a couple days because a ton of road closures. For perspective, '08 was a good flood year, and the news said we've gotten *twice* what we got then...our only saving grace was last year's horrible drought conditions. But they're talking like the rivers are still gonna be larger than they were 60+ years ago, which had large chunk of this part of the world underwater.

If SEMO is still in session, Reid could tell us how the big river is looking in that part of the world...I know in the mid'90s when I was going to school in Nashville they had interstates closed, and this is supposed to trump that.