Tag: storms
MOSBY, Mo. (AP) The residents of this small riverside town have become accustomed to watching floods swamp their streets, transform their homes into islands and ruin their floors and furniture. Elmer Sullivan has replaced…
EL RENO, Okla. (AP) A tornado leveled a motel and tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma City overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 29 others before a second twister raked…
The Iola Municipal Pool will not open Monday as previously scheduled. Stormy weather, which flooded portions of Riverside Park, prompted city officials to empty the pool of chemicals and other equipment, Assistant City Administrator Corey…
Overflowing rivers and reservoirs across Kansas are already producing significant flooding, particularly in the southeast corner of the state. But, forecasters say, things could get much worse over the next several days as slow-moving thunderstorms…
The National Weather Service is investigating why a warning wasnt issued for a small northeast Kansas town when a tornado hit the city. The Kansas City Star reports that the EF1 tornado developed early Friday…
Mike Epperson clears belongings from his storage unit on South State Street Tuesday. With forecasts for more rain likely, Iolans continue to brace for what could be the city’s worst flooding since 2007. Residents…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Rain swamping the nations midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois,…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) As the Mississippi River continues to surge, flash flooding along Kansas creeks and streams is forcing people from their homes, closing roads and prompting schools to call off classes. Emergency management…
MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) Officials in eastern Iowa and other states along the Mississippi River are preparing for record or near-record crests. The Rock Island gauge at Davenport showed the level this morning at a…
BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) ? Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father?s Day note to her husband reading, ?Daddy, I love you…
