South main flooding

Mom, Dale, and I went to south main street on Wednesday evening. Mom saw the fire chief, Ronnie Cline, so we talked to him for a bit. This is Nott's grocery: home of the best deli sandwitch around. I used to run over here on my lunch break about once a week and get a fantastic ham and cheese sandwitch. If you're thinking, "Big deal, what's so great about a sandwitch?" Well, you have not had a Nott's...
They built a 4 foot wall with plyboard and several hundred sandbags, but sadly
the 29.24 ft rise in the water proved to be too much.
In this view I included the south main fire station. According to a city councilman, the station escaped the water in 1986. Unfortunatly, this time there was about a foot of water standing in it. Luckily, several days ago, the firemen moved all the trucks to the station on the north end of town.
Standing in the same location as the previous two pics, I turned to the right and saw water flowing over the railroad bridge. It had been twenty hours since the water crested; I could hardly fathom water where there is usually a 25-30 foot space between the bridge and river.
Somewhere several feet below that water is the road that runs from south main and curves around to the Neosho E street bridge. I couldn't get close enough to the bridge to get a shot of it, but Ronnie Cline said that earlier in the day, he along with a young reporter and a fishing guide navigated a boat upto the bridge. The guide, (I didn't get his name) told the reporter, "This is a once in a lifetime occurance. Reach up and touch the bridge." The water was only four feet below the bridge at that point! Unbelievable amounts of water. So many families affected.