In St. Charles County just to the north of St. Louis, flooding is worse now than at any time in recent history.
圣查尔斯地处圣路易斯北部,现在,这里的洪涝是史上最严重的时候。
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Ray Camp of the St. Charles County Office of Emergency Management says levees and dikes north of the confluence of the two rivers are causing those rivers to seek out new channels.
St. Charles County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 360,485, making it the third-most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is St. Charles. The county was organized October 1, 1812 and named for Saint Charles Borromeo, an Italian cardinal.