Flash flooding unleashed by torrential downpours from a wave of thunderstorms struck the Ozark Mountains in rural southeastern Missouri on Friday, trapping hundreds of people in high water along the rain-swollen Black River, officials said.
National Guard teams in Black Hawk helicopters were flying some 200 stranded people to higher ground on Friday afternoon from Camp Taum Sauk in Lesterville, Missouri, about 100 miles (160 km) south of St. Louis, according to State Highway Patrol Sergeant Eddie Young.
