It's the wettest day in St. Louis history as a line of steady thunderstorms dropped 8-10 inches of rain across the area early Tuesday morning, swelling rivers and creeks and stranding drivers across several roads in the region.
A pet-friendly county shelter at the Richmond Community Center is open to surrounding communities affected by the flooding. The American Red Cross is helping about 100 people at the shelter with basic needs, according to St. Louis County Executive Sam page.
The NWS said the rainfall totals seen on Tuesday have a 1 in 1,000 chance of occurring in any given year. "These roads are heavily flooded and some people are trying to make it through, and they’re getting stranded causing us to have to do water rescues," Cpl. Logan Bolton with the Missouri State Highway Patrol told FOX Weather.
St. Louis Fire crews were also using small boats to rescue drivers trapped along Skinker Parkway, where several vehicles were submerged. Both Fee Fee Creek and Deer Creek have exceeded major flood stage, the NWS reported. In St. Charles, the Frontier Park pedestrian bridge collapsed from erosion: "A warm front lifted night, but then the boundary stalled out across the region," said FOX Weather Meteorologist Jane Minar. "We have warm air to the south of -- in fact, we have heat advisories in southern Missouri -- and then we have colder air off to the north. These two air masses butt up against each other but neither one wins out. So we see this boundary set up between these two and that's where that disrupting weather sits, and doesn't move.
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