Recovery Photos

Local volunteers, including several high school students, help distribute bottled water, packaged food and other basics to flood survivors from Ripley County’s donations management center at the county fairgrounds in Doniphan.

A team from @TeamRubicon, a disaster recovery volunteer group of mostly veterans and first responders, worked in Eureka for 30 days assisting with flood recovery and sleeping in a church basement. About 98 team members rotated through for one-week shifts, with the last group heading back to their homes around the country on Memorial Day.

​This photo was chosen because it shows a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) success story. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Catholic Charities teamed up to provide a replacement refrigerator for flood survivor Edward Powell of Ellington, Mo., who had attended a MARC and explained his critical need for a refrigerator so he could have access to insulin.

AmeriCorps St. Louis teamed up with Home Depot to help families in Bull Creek, near Branson, clean up and repair properties that sustained significant damage during the flooding.

Darrell Pratte, Missouri Department of Agriculture, delivered over 1,400 survey records to Pauline Peterman, Carter County Recorder, to replace documents destroyed in the flood. Some documents date back to the 1880s and preserve the county’s property line development. Surveys establish land corners, which are dependable references for identifying property boundaries.

A public health nurse from the St. Louis County Health Department administers a tetanus vaccine. Following the flooding, the Department of Health and Senior Services coordinated the distribution of more than 2,200 doses of tetanus vaccine to flood-affected areas. 

AmeriCorps has deployed crews to St. Louis County and Carter County, which are working in tandem with the Missouri Community Service Commission and local organizations through United Way 211 to coordinate services.

The last of 15 MARCs was open Thursday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. in Arnold (Jefferson County). During the past 11 days, a total of 15 MARCs served more than 1,100 Missouri families impacted by flooding. In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, MARCs provide crucial assistance to survivors as they take their first steps toward recovery.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Southeast Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross celebrated 100 years of serving the people of southeast Missouri, including during the recovery from events like this year's historic flooding.

A house near Licking, in Texas County was knocked off its elevated concrete stilts by flooding from the Big Piney River, possibly after being hit by a runaway double-wide mobile home.