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Continued Heavy Rains Brings Flooding to Central Missouri

Video captured in Mexico and Centralia, Missouri, located in Central Missouri, showing flooding across Audrain County after they received around 1.96 inches of rain since 7 am today and around 2.66 inches between midnight Monday and 5 pm, in about 17 hours. The heavy rain and flooding prompted a flash flood warning from the National Weather Service in St. Louis, issued around 11:48 AM and lasting until 2:45 PM after 1-2 inches of rain had fallen.
Shot Description

00:00 Close and medium shots showing heavy rain falling on the front of a vehicle on Monday afternoon in Centralia, Missouri.

00:30 Close-up shot of ponding water forming as heavy rain continues to fall, with the next clip showing a wide shot of a ditch completely flooded and beginning to overflow as heavy rain is actively falling.

00:52 Sign on the side of the road saying the road is impassable during high water.

01:03 A wide and medium shot of signs in the ditch used to measure how deep the flood waters are on the roadways. In the videos, you can see flash flooding in the ditches just short of where the measurement signs begin.

01:24 Two clips of a vehicle driving through flood waters on the roadway.

01:53 Three clips of high water flowing under the roadway with caution tape and cones marking the edge of the road or ditch following the heavy rains.

02:11 Various clips showing the fast-moving flood waters along the side of the road and through a fence.

02:49 Video showing a partially flooded pasture with cows standing along the edge of the flood waters.

02:57 Video of a golden retriever walking through the flood waters of a river or stream that flooded over its banks, and up to the edge of the fast-moving flood waters.

03:11 In this clip, the same golden can be seen running away from the fast-moving flood waters and playing in the water.

03:19 Various medium and wide shots showing a flooded roadway and water flowing across the road following the heavy rains.

03:50 Additional wide and medium shots showing the fast-moving and flooded ditches from the heavy rains.

04:13 Video of a neighbor driving an ATV through the flooded roadway following the heavy rains, after they had checked out the flooding.

04:21 Additional clips showing a completely flooded roadway flowing over the road.

05:13 Video of a guy walking out into a flooded farm field. Based on the boots the man was wearing, the water was roughly 15-18" deep in spots.

05:39 Wide shots showing the farm field completely flooded following the heavy rains.

06:04 Two more clips showing water flowing across a roadway following the heavy rains.

06:20 The final three clips are medium and close-up shots of a rain gauge just before a measurement was taken around 5 PM, showing around 1.96 inches of rain since 7 am Monday morning.

SID: Sara Bruce

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