re: It’s been raining for 24 plus hours straight

This is a good read and gives a great perspective on the power of the Mississippi river. The author gives a lot of data on how much it rained to cause the flooding.

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

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The Great Flood

I live about where the red dot is on the left pic. Scary to think the Mississippi River could reach this far.

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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive flood in United States history.
This flood extended across Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. At one point the river was approximately 80
miles wide near Vicksburg, MS.
The flooding was a result of persistent heavy rainfall across the Central U.S. starting in August
1926 and continuing through the spring of 1927. As unprecedented amounts of run-off from the
different tributaries combined, extreme water levels churned by wind overwhelmed the levees
protecting the Mississippi Valley floodplains, breaching the flood defenses as the water traveled
southward. It was not until August 1927 that the last of the floodwaters had flowed into the Gulf
of Mexico

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The Rising Tide video