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Deadly floods hit central US with Missouri worst affected
Topic Started: 9 Aug 2013, 01:35 AM (157 Views)
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8 August 2013

Deadly floods hit central US with Missouri worst affected

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This family declined evacuation orders as a creek overtopped its banks in Newburg, Missouri

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This motorway in central Missouri reopened on Thursday, but here a day earlier

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A man looks for signs of his trailer, which was swept away by flood waters in Hollister, Missouri

Up to three people have died in flash floods that have sparked alerts in five US states.

A child was killed and his mother is presumed dead after their car was swept away in Missouri, which has suffered the worst of the deluge.

Another woman died as her car drove over a bridge in rapidly rising waters in the same state.

Flash flood warnings are also in place in parts of Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

More heavy rains are forecast into the weekend.

'Class V whitewater'

Missouri officials say hopes are fading that 23-year-old Jessica Lee will be found alive.

Her vehicle was washed away by floodwaters near Waynesville on Tuesday.

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Nashville residents took to their roofs to avoid the rising water

The body of her four-year-old son, Elyjah, has already been found.

The rains had turned a normally placid creek into "a Class V whitewater river", said Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long.

Some 15in (38cm) of rain was recorded in a 48-hour period near Waynesville.

Another Missouri woman died on Thursday morning when her car was hit by floodwaters on a road in McDonald County, said local emergency management director Gregg Sweeten.

At least 100 homes and businesses in Hollister, Missouri, were damaged when a creek flooded.

Scores of people were evacuated, some of whom had to be rescued by boat.

The Interstate 44 motorway in central Missouri reopened on Thursday after floodwaters receded, but many other roads remained inundated in the south of the state.

In Nashville, Tennessee, firefighters had to wade through waist-deep flood waters to rescue residents of one apartment building, after up to 8in of rain fell in a few hours.

Arkansas saw about 10in of rain fall in Benton County, while parts of Kansas and Oklahoma saw 6in of rain.

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Flooding claims more lives in rain-battered states

By CNN Staff
August 9, 2013

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Frantic rescues in flooded South

(CNN) -- Floodwater in Oklahoma swept away and killed a man who was trying to save his daughter from a stranded vehicle early Friday, adding to the toll from flooding and storms plaguing a number of states this week.

The 60-year-old man was washed away by fast-moving floodwater that had rapidly appeared in Oklahoma City overnight, city police Lt. Gamille Hardin said.

The man's body was found Friday morning.

His daughter had been stuck in a vehicle surrounded by rapidly rising water, Hardin said.
Storm systems continue to hammer states with drenching rain and significant flash flooding.

Of particular concern Friday are parts of southeast Kansas and southern Missouri, which have seen up to 10 inches of rain this week, with more expected over the weekend.

These areas are at extreme risk for flooding into Saturday morning, the National Weather Service said.

In all, parts of 21 states in the Northwest, Plains, Midwest, Southeast and Northeast were under some sort of flood warning or watch Friday morning.

They include parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, where forecasters say more than 2 inches of rain may fall in a short period of time Friday.

One to 2 inches of rain are on the way to an area from Pennsylvania to Maine in the Northeast, where 1 to 3 inches of rain already have fallen this week.

In Nashville, authorities have conducted more than 200 water rescues, and surrounding communities have reported several more, Mayor Karl Dean told CNN affiliate WSMV.

in nearby Mt. Juliet, rushing water lifted a business off of its foundation and carried it 30 feet away, as area residents reported waist-high water and other locals were stranded on their roofs.

"I called 911 and said, 'Can you get over here?' They couldn't get here because it was too choppy. It was like a lake in my front yard," flood victim Calvin Hooch told WSMV.

Another resident, Sara Mickelsen, said she saw "a lady and a baby floating by on a mattress."

Waynesville, Missouri, was another hard-hit locale. As residents tried to clean up after Tuesday's and Wednesday's heavy rains, Thursday's flooding interrupted their efforts, and authorities ordered evacuations as Roubidoux Creek rose, CNN affiliate KYTV reported.

"Everything in this living room was soaked, as it all came in through the door," resident Andy Anderson told the station.

Deaths in South Carolina, Missouri

The death in Oklahoma was one of several storm-related fatalities reported over the past few days.

In South Carolina, Logan Dale Evans was found dead in floodwater on his family property Wednesday night near the town of Central, Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley said.

Evans, 23, was found outside his vehicle, which ended up about a mile downstream, said Kelley, who added that Evans is believed to have drowned.

At least two people were reported killed in Missouri this week, including a driver who was caught in rapidly rising water in McDonald County on Thursday, said Gregg Sweeten, the county's emergency management director.

The woman, thought to be in her 60s, had been trying to drive over a bridge when the water overwhelmed her vehicle, Sweeten said.

On Monday, Elijah Lee, 4, died after 6 inches of rain fell on Pulaski County, about 140 miles southwest of St. Louis.

The boy was found in a vehicle swept up in floodwater that caught the community along Mitchell Creek off guard, said Sgt. Dan Crain, a Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman.

CNN's Dave Hennen, Shawn Nottingham, Jason Hanna, John Branch, Sherri Pugh and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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Raging floodwaters rip through Colorado town, leaving 1 dead, 3 missing

By Stephanie Gallman and Greg Botelho, CNN
August 10, 2013

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(CNN) -- Roads ripped to rubble by floodwaters up to 10 feet deep, rushing up to 30 mph.

Shattered homes near others still standing upright.

One person dead, three others missing.

That's the harsh reality police, firefighters and residents were dealing with Saturday in Manitou Springs, a mountain community of about 5,000 people just west of Colorado Springs, after sudden, raging waters tore through the area.

Under mostly sunny skies, crews spent the day looking for the missing and combing through wreckage wrought by floods triggered by intense rain.

Locals such as Justin Blount, meanwhile, tried to make sense of what happened.

He was in a Manitou Springs cafe, working on its owner's computer, on Friday when water suddenly, perilously started flowing in front of the building.

He and others -- one of them wheelchair-bound -- heard the water rushing below them as they finally got in an elevator and crept up to safety.

"It was like a raging river, a black river coming down," Blount told CNN affiliate KUSA, dry after his 2½ hour ordeal the day earlier. "... It was wild. I'm still in a little bit of shock."

His central Colorado town, at the foot of Pikes Peak, was one of several nationwide that have been impacted by wet weather and floodwaters in recent days.

Showers and thunderstorms were expected from the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South.

In addition to a pocket of Colorado, flash-flood warnings were in effect Saturday for parts of Washington and Oregon, as well as much of New Mexico.

There were flood warnings -- which arise when water levels in rivers and other waterways rise to precarious levels -- in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and South Carolina.

Some communities bracing for wet weather were coping with the aftermath of earlier devastating floods.

A flash flood watch was in effect through 9 p.m. (11 p.m. ET) in Manitou Springs, for instance, given the threat that could be caused by more heavy rains.

The dangers there are exacerbated by last year's mammoth Waldo Canyon wildfire, which -- as Lt. Steve Schopper of the Manitou Springs Fire Department explained -- made the soil saturated, unstable, "kind of waxy" and little help in curbing rushing waters.

"It's like liquid cement," Schopper told KUSA, noting that those caught up in the rocks, trees and other debris have little chance to escape. "... You're not swimming out of this. It will rip your clothes off."

Video of the mudslide showed cars sliding swiftly down an incline while others remained stranded in rushing, gray-colored water.

One man was found dead beneath "significant amounts of debris" left on Colorado Highway 24, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said.

The search, meanwhile, continued for three others.

One is a petite blonde woman "seen near the creek at one moment hanging in a tree and then not seen the next," Manitou Springs Police Chief Joe Ribeiro said Saturday.

Two other men were also reported missing by a family member and a neighbor.

In Oklahoma, floodwaters swept away and killed a man who was trying to save his daughter from a stranded vehicle early Friday.

Vincent Brown was attempting to rescue his daughter who had become stranded in high water in her vehicle, Oklahoma City Police spokesperson Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said.

Wardlow said Brown's daughter was wading toward her father.

She turned to retrieve some items in her vehicle, and when she turned back around, he had been swept away by fast-moving floodwater that had rapidly appeared in Oklahoma City overnight.

In South Carolina, Logan Dale Evans was found dead in floodwater on his family property Wednesday night near the town of Central, Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley said.

Evans, 23, was found outside his vehicle, which ended up about a mile downstream, said Kelley, who added that Evans is believed to have drowned.

At least two people were reported killed in Missouri this week, including a driver who was caught in rapidly rising water in McDonald County on Thursday, said Gregg Sweeten, the county's emergency management director.

The woman, thought to be in her 60s, had been trying to drive over a bridge when the water overwhelmed her vehicle, Sweeten said.

On Monday, Elijah Lee, 4, died after 6 inches of rain fell on Pulaski County, about 140 miles southwest of St. Louis.

The boy was found in a vehicle swept up in floodwater that caught the community along Mitchell Creek off guard, said Sgt.

Dan Crain, a Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman.

CNN's Melissa Lefevre and Emily Smith contributed to this report.

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