Missouri Floods Prompt Black Hawk Rescue of Campers
TL;DR
A foot of rain caused severe flooding in southeastern Missouri, prompting the National Guard to evacuate hundreds of campers from Camp Taum Sauk along the Black River, with Black Hawk helicopters ferrying people to safety in what authorities described as a once-in-a-thousand-years event, echoing memories of last year’s Camp Mystic floods in Texas.
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