Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday across a wide swath of the nation's midsection as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain on the region.
Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, a search was under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water.
The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. About 10 inches had fallen by Wednesday morning in southeast Missouri's Cape Girardeau County, where street flooding marooned some residents in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. The weather service said 6.7 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Jasper, Ark., and nearly 6 inches had fallen at Evansville, Ind.
Orlando Sentinel
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
