"It was a very haunting place to be the day afterwards," Gov. "They were filled with a lot of debris, but it was very heartening to see that what we had, in terms of a resource, was still intact, if not covered in debris and in need of a lot of TLC and clean-up, but it was still there." "We kind of bushwhacked back into the shut-ins, and saw that amidst all the devastation, the shut-ins were still intact," Bryan said. They toured the flood-ravaged park below the reservoir the following day. They, too, were swept away, but all survived with only minor injuries.īill Bryan is the current director of Missouri's state park system, but in 2005 he worked for then-Attorney General Jay Nixon. It also damaged the park's lone residence, which housed park superintendent Jerry Toops, his wife, and their three children. The wall of water followed the Black River and swept through Johnson's Shut-ins State Park, depositing tons of rock, boulders and sediment along the way. 14, 2005, a section of dam wall along the old Taum Sauk reservoir collapsed, sending 1.3 billion gallons of water rushing down the side of Proffit Mountain in rural southeastern Missouri.
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Your information helps to make this a wonderful archive and may end up in book form.On Dec. (His mother said her stories improved after all the folks who could contradict died off.) Please comment on the articles when you see he may have left out a bit of history, forgotten a name or when your memory of a circumstance conflicts with his.
He retired in 2008 and has been spending time scanning hundreds of thousands of images because “photos once taken as news have grown enough whiskers that they’ve become history.” Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, spent half a century in the ink-slinging business for papers in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida. They explained that the same thing had happened to nearly every one of them and they felt compelled to post someone around the edge of the particular pool for safety’s sake if they were there. Fortunately there were several young guys around the edge of the pool and one reached in and had pulled me free. As I reached up with my arms to pull against the water, I felt a hand gab mine and pull me upward. I was struggling to get back to the surface but the water kept pushing me deeper. As I slid from one pool into the next, I slid into one of the deep plunge pools and the force of the water drove me deep into the pool. It is fun to slip in and around the rocks and pools while swimming but make sure that at least one buddy (the old Boy Scout axiom) is within arms-length. The surroundings were always tranquil, and the beauty remained year-round.ĭuring our last foray there, I experienced something that makes me offer a word of caution. The Shut-Ins has long been a staple in the list of Robinson Family places to stay and enjoy. This AP story tells how the 1950s-vintage park was redesigned “with 21st-Century sensibilities.” Categories Photos around Cape 14, 2005, dumping 1.3 billion gallons of water into the park. AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk reservoir disasterĪmerenUE’s Taum Sauk reservoir breached in the early morning hours of Dec. It was a hot day, so Mother, who will try anything once, took advantage of the cool water. The place was so packed, in fact, that it was hard to find a parking place when we were there last.
Since then, it’s become a popular natural water park from folks as far away as St. When I was there with Dad, we had the whole place to ourselves. He said he the sight of water hitting the rock formations and spraying dozens of feet into the air when the river was flooding was “awesome.” Son Matt looks like he was about three or four in one of the photos on this roll (not shown due to excessive cuteness), so they would have been taken before the 1980s, probably around 1978. I thought it was one of the coolest places I had ever been in Missouri. When I was a kid, Dad took me to see Johnson’s Shut-ins State Park while he was building a road nearby.
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