During time in SCSEP, job seekers work with Easterseals staff to target and achieve personal employment goals.
#FLOODED ROADS IN MISSOURI UPDATE#
Through this transitional employment program, Easterseals partners with community-based non-profit organizations and government agencies (host agencies) to provide participants with training opportunities to update their skills. But with the Mississippi spilling over levees in some places, and seeping under them in others, he cautioned, “there will be flooding.An interview with Crystal Odom-McKinney, National Director of Senior Community Service Employment Programs (SCSEP), and Max Zielinski, Assistant National Director of SCSEP at Easterseals discussing the importance of SCSEP services at Easterseals. “We haven’t seen any levee failures,” and that should remain true, said Rene Poche, a spokesman for the corps. Since the 2011 flood, the Corps of Engineers has worked to strengthen the levee system in places that were hard-hit, like Cairo, Ill., with projects like installing underground barriers to keep water from seeping through porous soil under the levees. “The water came up a whole lot faster than normal,” she said. And by Wednesday morning, the lower level was flooded. Govero said, the water was trickling into the hospital’s parking lot. A creek sits at the bottom of the bluff, and she said that the water was contained to the area immediately around the creek when she got to work Tuesday morning.īy the time she left at about 8 p.m. They raised it another foot last night.”Ĭonnie Govero, the office manager for the Olde Towne Fenton Pet Hospital, pointed out a back window of the business, toward a wooded bluff a couple of football fields away. “A day and a half ago, it was 39.8,” said Alan Schiller, 49, who lives here. Louis, was evacuated, after the Mississippi topped a levee there. The entire town of West Alton, population 500, north of St. Emergency workers, National Guardsmen and volunteers built sandbag barriers and patrolled streets in motorboats, rescuing people and pets from rooftops, while a house that had been swept from its foundation drifted down the Meramec. The rivers here surged over their levees, evacuation orders were issued for thousands of people in several towns, and the state Department of Transportation closed a 24-mile stretch of Interstate 44, the major artery through the area, most of it under water. Just up the road, people stood on a bridge spanning the river and gawked at the flotsam that raced downstream, including a roof. Each was submerged about halfway under what had essentially become a vast lake. A transmission shop, a brick bungalow housing a commercial glass company, and a bar sat side by side. Morgan said that of all the entrepreneurial risks she envisioned when she took over Sisters Tea House, the thought that the placid river down the hill would rise up and swallow the heart of this town of 4,000 people, was not one of them.įenton officials made plans to deposit rocks as temporary roads into stranded subdivisions, while in parts of the town’s business district, it was hard to tell that roads ever existed. Polizzi, who has lived here for 20 years. “It’s of such proportions that it’s very difficult to use the correct words to tell you how bad it is,” said Mr. In places, the Meramec rose 27 feet above flood stage - as much as three feet higher than had ever been recorded. The usual declarations from victims that they had never seen anything like it somehow fell short, as the Meramec and its tributaries shattered previous flood records Wednesday. Louis, where the river winds its way toward the Mississippi. The hardest-hit region is eastern Missouri, particularly here, in the small towns along the Meramec southwest of St. “Fenton will become an island, I’m afraid, here shortly,” said Michael D. Morgan and her husband, Jodi, who live in Eureka, another town battling floods, feared they would be unable to make it home. Jay Nixon of Missouri warned after touring some of the flooded areas.įor people in this region, rising waters mean more road closures, and many people are already stranded.
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