The property closed on May 22 as a result of the increased rise in the Arkansas River. River Spirit Casino Resort Chief Executive Officer Pat Crofts estimates the Tulsa resort will remain closed through the month of June assuming the water levels diminish during the flood. While no coffins were disturbed, the cemetery is faced with a mammoth cleanup effort.TULSA, Okla. 'It's just amazing, and I didn't want to look in that hole.' I can't believe how such old trees can just be toppled,' Romonia Dinkla, the cemetery's treasurer, told WHO.

The storm knocked over several large trees at the Oakwood Cemetery nearby. Nathan Ludwig, a spokesman for the Iowa State Patrol, told NBC affiliate WHO of Des Moines. 'One minute you're driving, and the next second you're on your side sliding down the interstate,' Sgt. In Casey, about 25 miles west of Des Moines, winds associated with the storm were so fierce that they flipped over four semitrailers on Interstate 80 on Tuesday morning. Communities that have seen little rain are getting hit by historic flooding along the Arkansas River thanks to downpours upstream. But when he returned home in the afternoon, water 'was coming in my doors.' Flooded homes along the Arkansas River in Sand Spring, Oklahoma, on Tuesday. 'The river is still having a release out of the dam that’s highest than it’s been in over three decades, we still have a long way to go before we’re in a safe pace in this community,' he said.īates said he thought he was OK when he left for work Tuesday morning. He encouraged people living near the levees to consider proactively relocating. If that were to happen, entire neighborhoods would flood with water that the Tulsa Health Department said is likely to be full of snakes, sewage and debris.īynum warned that despite the night of better weather, there was still work to be done and residents should 'remain vigilant' and while there was no emergency in regards to the levees at the moment, 'there is high risk.' More than 2 million gallons of water a second has been flowing toward Tulsa, putting the city's 75-year-old network of levees at risk of failing. 'The rain that we were anticipating to be pretty severe ended up not being as bad as projected.' 'We were very fortunate last night, for the first time in about a week and a half, the weather broke our way,' Tulsa Mayor G.T.

It will then begin to reduce the magnitude of that release, he said. He added that in the 'absence of additional rainfall and inflow coming into the reservoir,' the Corps will maintain the release of 275,000 cubic feet of water per second from the dam through late Thursday. Williams said thereservoir's elevation peaked Tuesday and was not dropping.

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