Missouri Flash Floods Force 100 Rescues After 6 to 12 Inches of Rain

Q: With over 90 people saved from Missouri's flash floods, what is the status of the one person still unaccounted for?

The one person who had remained unaccounted for in Crawford County was later found dead. Earlier Friday, authorities said the person was missing after flood rescues in the county and that search efforts were continuing in extremely dangerous conditions, with high water, swift currents and unstable terrain complicating operations. Later, the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the person had drowned at Bluff Hole Park in Mulberry. That means the earlier missing-person report was resolved not with a rescue, but with a confirmed fatality, even as more than 90 others were saved in the broader southeast Missouri flooding.

3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 10

At least 100 people were rescued Friday in southeastern Missouri after torrential rain triggered flash flooding, with distress calls starting around 3 a.m. in hard-hit Iron and Reynolds counties.
Six to 12 inches fell across the region in 24 hours, an amount the National Weather Service called a once-in-a-thousand-years event with a 0.1% annual chance.
Flash-flood warnings remained in effect across parts of the region later Friday, and a flood watch was set to continue through Saturday in parts of Missouri and Illinois.
Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency as intense storms drove multiple swift-water rescues, extending a flooding crisis that had already stranded dozens at a lodge earlier in the day.