Stranded campers among hundreds rescued from historic Missouri flooding after ‘1-in-1,000-year event’ dumps a foot of rain
A series of thunderstorms dumped between 6 and 12 inches of rain across southeast Missouri overnight into Friday morning in what Governor Mike Kehoe is describing as a 1-in-1000-year rainfall event.
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US News Stranded campers among hundreds rescued from historic Missouri flooding after ‘1-in-1,000-year event’ dumps a foot of rain By Ella Morrison Published July 11, 2026, 12:45 a.m. ET (function() { var overlay = document.getElementById("nyp-player-lcp-overlay"); if (!overlay) { return; } function hideOverlay() { overlay.remove(); } function afterDCL() { requestAnimationFrame(hideOverlay); } if (document.readyState === "loading") { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", afterDCL, { once: true }); } else { afterDCL(); } })(); See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Hundreds of people, including young campers, were rescued across Missouri Friday as flash flooding from a once-in-a-millennium deluge transformed rivers into raging torrents.
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