(Bloomberg) -- After a New Year’s wrecked by flooding and destruction, there’s good news for the people of St. Louis: The worst appears to be over.
Most of Missouri’s major roads and highways are open again and so is the 6-mile stretch of Mississippi River that the U.S. Coast Guard closed last week. The Meramec River, which climbed 35 feet (11 meters) over three days and created much of the region’s havoc, is receding.
“It’s come down almost as fast as it went up,” Mike O’Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety, said in an e-mail.
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