Governor Mike Parson, a.k.a. Sheriff Hee-Haw, claims Missouri has an $8 billion dollar surplus. At least $2.8 billion of it will be used to widen I-70 in rural parts of the state. (“Just one more lane, bro.”) Meanwhile, $550 million of state programs were vetoed including money that would have gone towards public schools, law enforcement, and urban flood prevention.

So why am I bringing up what is practically “last week’s news”? Because in the St. Louis area, it’s about to become this week’s news as forecasters are calling for heavy rain on Wednesday this week…like 3 inches at least. So Hee-Haw is about to eat his words.

Pic is from an Area Forecast Discission on the NWS St. Louis website originally posted at 2:27 PM today.

We (by that I mean folks in the St. Louis Area) could be in for a world of hurt later this week and all we can do is see what happened last year happen again this year.

It’s not a possiblity of “if” but “when”. Similar situations occurred this last week in Oklahoma, Chicago, and the Hudson Valley area of New York.

So get ready in case it does happen.