I drove a motorboat over Highway 71 a few miles north of Nevada during that flood. Trees were full of ants and mice and anything that didn't have gills. So were the exposed parts - if any - of barns, houses and anything above water. Had a souvenier pecan for a lot of years until the boy knocked it off the mantle and vacuumed it up. Lived in Holts Summit at the time and officed in Jefferson City. That washout of Highway 54 on the Callaway side of the river was a major pain.
My kitchen has smelled like a pickle factory - multi types of course-, a salsa factory, a tomato cannery, and a spaghetti sauce factory multi times over the last six weeks or so. Right now it smells like a tomato relish factory. What fun.
Check out Ozarks Clean Water Company, Ozarks Environmental Services and Ozarks Water Watch websites. You'll see what real people can do to fix real problems in real time. Proud to work with David and all of the above before and after retirement.
I've been way down the Jack Russell Terrier road and this is my screen name across the net. The avatar is some guy's fishing stuff in a canoe. To prove I'm trying to mend my wayward nature.