Thread by @sarahkendzior

This is the public pool of University City, MO. Flood water filled the pool, rose over the fence surrounding it, and destroyed it. Heman Park is filled with broken pool chairs and umbrellas and the pool is filled with river and rain.

Welcome to Heman Park. I've walked this park every week for 16 years. The River Des Peres is here. It usually looks like a small dirty creek. Sometimes it dries up to the point that you can walk over it. There are now garbage cans in the trees and the park has become the river.

The River Des Peres in Heman Park, University City #stlwx

I've lived through plenty of tornados that caused great damage in St Louis but never something caused by pure rain, not wind -- unrelenting rain, a once in a thousand year flood

This is what the River Des Peres usually looks like:

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/635555752950677504?t=pJRYHJcwyasqrHudOLDXaA&s=19

And this is what the pool in University City used to look like

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/739885946703732736?t=pJRYHJcwyasqrHudOLDXaA&s=19