Flooding

Route 23 is closed between county roads NE 950 and NE 1125 due to water over the road in the Blackwater Bottoms.

Record flooding last year overtopped and breached dozens of levees along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Flooding along the Missouri River has stretched on for seven months in some places and could endure through the winter.

After devastating flooding this year, Iowa funneled $15 million into a special fund to help local governments recover and guard against future floods. Missouri budgeted more money to fight rising waters, including $2 million to help buy a moveable floodwall for a historic Mississippi River town that…

The rain we've gotten last night and tonight is causing some travel issues and cancellations this afternoon.

About 15.5 million people, 1.4 million acres of farmland, and $23.8 billion in residential property are now threatened by flooding in the Missouri River Basin. The flooding this year made that apparent, after at least 60 levees were overtopped or breached across Missouri and Kansas.

Snakes are showing up in areas people usually don't find them because of the flooding. Take for example the Copperhead found in Parkville.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced the immediate closure to recreational boating traffic of the Osage River

Flooding and freight congestion have caused a suspension of Amtrak service throughout Missouri including Sedalia and Warrensburg.

The National Weather Service says we can expect showers and thunderstorms tonight and overnight. Then more of the same tomorrow.