How hours stretched the rain continued to pour, and the flood waters flooded city and surrounding areas, forcing people run or wait for lifeguards to find them.
Jessica Perez woke her up son around 3:30 am to find her basement flooded with a few inches of water, she told CNN. Video directed by Perez shows basement flooded with muddy water, wet feet of furniture as Christmas decorations, etc. items to swim.
By 9 a.m., the water receded, exposing a layer of debris and black suck and leave everything in the basement is destroyed, Perez said. “Never in my life i experienced something like this,” she said.
flood left least one human dead Tuesday. male body was found in a vehicle which was sunk under more than 8 feet of water, city This was announced by fire chief Dennis Jenkerson. The police were called to the lowland area on concerned resident and found in body when the water receded, he said.
Rescuers fanned themselves out through area to help stuck residents stuck in flood. fire The department responded to approximately 18 homes where people fell into the trap, saving six people as well as six dogs,” the ministry said in a statement. Approximately 15 people decided to take cover in place.
Roads turned into rivers
flood homes also turned the roads into stormy rivers, forcing many street closing like vehicles plunged into the depths of the window and drivers we left stuck all over the city waiting for rescuers on boats.
BUT stretch of I-70 in St. Louis area — where vehicles stuck in water – was closed in both directions early in the morning, and motorists were urged avoid interstate.
“You can see there are cars up floats there” driver Jerome Smith said in video he took while stuck on I-70 for three hours.
By Tuesday afternoon, the highways were mostly clear and all bridges over According to Heather Taylor, director of public safety in St. Louis, the De Pere River has been reopened. “Though we hope the worst behind us want save public reported, “Taylor added.
The footage shows water flowing through the Forest Park-DeBaliviere metro station. “His currently river… i never saw it in four years that I have lived here,” said Tony Nipert, “ who lives near the station.
Such intense rainfall in St. Louis area only happens once every 500 years on on average according to the NWS.
Big oneDaily discharges of precipitation, which occurred once a decade (between 1850 and 1900), are expected to become more commonThis is stated in the report of the UN Intergovernmental Group of Experts. on Changing of the climate.
Amy Simonson of CNN, Amy Roberts, Sharif Paget, Sarah Smart, Melissa Alonso, Jason Hanna and Carol Alvarado contributed to this report.
