I-40 detour advice (and my absence from the board)

[zimtok]

Here is a link to an Arkansas map showing in red the roads closed by flooding.

http://www.arkansashighways.com/Roads/General_Highway_Map.pdf



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[zimtok]

and this from the Mississippi site.

http://www.my601.com/news/local/story/Mississippi-Floods-2011-MDOT-Updates-Road-Closure/L9gbmPIQ5Uqdt5jxbL-BMg.cspx?rss=2331


Below is a list of present road closures, probable and possible future closures, for MDOT maintained routes due to the Mississippi River flooding. This list will be updated continually and is subject to change if predicted water levels change.  MDOT intends to keep all roads open until they become affected by high flood waters.

CURRENT ROAD CLOSURES

SR 465 – Warren & Issaquena County between US 61 & Eagle Lake – CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

PROBABLE FUTURE ROAD CLOSURES

US 61 -Warren & Claiborne Counties- South of Vicksburg, North of Port Gibson, at the Big Black River crossing – no estimated date available at this time.

US 61 -Warren County – North of Vicksburg at the US 61/SR 3 intersection near Redwood – estimated closure date is May 14.

US 61 -Warren County – North of Vicksburg at the US 61/SR 465 intersection north of Yazoo River Bridge near Redwood – estimated closure date is May 15.

SR 3 -Warren County – approximately 2.3 miles north of the US 61/SR 3 intersection – estimated closure date is May 15.

SR 3 – Yazoo County  -  Starting approximately 0.65 miles north of the SR 3/SR 433 intersection and continuing northward for 2 miles –near Satartia – estimated closure date is May 19.

SR 16 / SR 149 (Old Hwy 49W) - Yazoo County – Whittington Auxiliary Channel near Wolf Lake to Yazoo River

Between Whittington Levee & Erickson Rd. estimated closure date is May 12.

Between Erickson Rd. and Yazoo River estimated closure date is May 14.

US 49W - Humphreys & Yazoo Counties – Wittington Auxiliary Channel South of Silver City to Yazoo River – estimated closure date is May 16.

SR 1 – Sharkey/Issaquena County – West of US 61 at the SR 1/SR 465 intersection – no estimated date available at this time.

SR 16/County Road 16 – Sharkey County – in the vicinity of Delta National Forrest – no estimated date available at this time.

[Sean]

Thank you everyone.  She should be across the river and past Vicksburg by the time she stops this evening.  She will report to relief operation headquarters in Jackson tomorrow morning.

At least we will be close enough now for me to drive over to see her on my day off...

-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com