Amazing Drone Footage from December 30
Commodore Scottie Robertson provided this awesome drone footage of high water around the Club. This is just a small taste of what this bird can do!
Happy New Year — Happy High Water
9am update from the Lasalle County Highway Department:
“Dee Bennett Road is CLOSED due to flooding. Ben Samek Road near the Peru landfill is expected to be CLOSED by noon Wednesday, December 30th. Both roads will remain closed through the weekend until the water receeds and ice is cleared.”
Eyes are on the Illinois River today, December 30th, as the water levels are predicted to crest about 6pm tonight. Unfortunately, the crest is expected to reach a level that would place it in the record book as one of the top 5 all-time high water marks. One of those records was also in the month of December, in 2008.
The closing of Dee Bennett Road would not come as a surprise, but we’ll need to wait and see. As of 8am Wednesday, there has been no word from the County Highway Department or the news media.
East Peoria Boat Club has postponed the Polar Ice Plunge until January 30th. You might recall that Miss Riverbottom was postponed, then finally cancelled, due to high water last summer at the same location.
Below the dam, water levels are expected to rise by 10 to 15 feet above normal pool at La Salle, Henry and Peoria.
News links:
Voluntary evacuation in Marseilles — “This is the new normal …”
Mississippi closed to all traffic near St. Louis
Midwest flood update from the Chicago Tribune
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