Missouri River floods as holiday weekend approaches

Thursday, May 26, 2011 | 7:29 p.m. CDT; updated 10:28 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, June 1, 2011

COLUMBIA — Jeff Barrow has been on the Missouri River at flood stage. The current moves faster, and the river can behave differently. He remembers seeing a vortex forming behind a concrete barrier of the Interstate 70 bridge at Rocheport years ago.

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