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Pettis County Emergency Officials were surprised by the number of people who tried to drive through water covered roads
Pettis County Emergency Officials report more than 50 cars were stranded in flash flood waters during Wednesday night’s storm.
Emergency officials were surprised by the number of people who tried to drive through water covered roads.
Pettis County Emergency Management Agency Director Dave Clippert said, “I don’t know what some people were thinking. We have tried to say over a number of days, with all of this rain that we’ve had during the last few weeks, if you can’t see the road underneath the water, don’t try to go through it.”
Tow truck drivers were busy removing stranded cars from several low lying areas in Sedalia. The water was down near the Katy Trail overpass on Highway 65 as of Thursday afternoon. Emergency officials fear flood waters will return to the area with more rain in the forecast. A La Monte bridge on Wimer Road was heavily damaged by flood waters. David Dane lives next to the collapsing concrete overpass. Dane has asked county officials to upgrade the bridge for several years.
Dane said, “We’ve been trying to get them to work on that for quite a while now. We tried to get them out here because we told them this bridge was going to go sooner or later. It finally went.”
Pettis County Road Department Field Superintendent Leonard Salmons said the bridge should be replaced within the next 6 months.
Salmons said, “It has collapsed as you can see over there on the west side. It wouldn’t surprise me if we get a little more rain tonight that it doesn’t go ahead and fall.”
Pettis County Emergency Management Officials are reporting no deaths or injuries because of the weather. They said the best way to stay safe while driving is to turn around, don’t drown.
Pettis County emergency officials also received several reports of flooded basements due to Wednesday’s 8 inch rain.
Courtesy of connectmidmissouri.com
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