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The Missouri River starts to drop Thursday in mid-Missouri.
It crested early Thursday morning in Jefferson City at nearly 26.5 feet. Forecasters expect it to remain at moderate flood stage there until the weekend.
The river barely hit major flood stage of 32 feet in Glasgow on Wednesday, but is now falling there too.
There’s rain in the forecast the next three days, which could lead water levels to rise again next week.
“With the conditions that now reside with levees and so forth, I would recommend that people be prepared for major flooding along the Missouri River as well going into the future,” Kevin Low with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says to Missourinet.
Highway 87 between Boonville and New Franklin, and Highway 179 just west of Boone County at Sandy Hook, are among the roads still closed because of flooding as of early Thursday.
