Several roadways have also been closed because of flooding, including a section of Interstate 70 outside St. Louis.
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The Governor also urged residents to use caution in northern Missouri, where snow and freezing rain are expected as temperatures and wind gusts increase. Counties affected by the closures include Laclede, Lafayette, Macon, Ray, Scotland, Ste.
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Jay Nixon says the state’s death toll from days of pounding rainfall has risen to 10, and he expects that number to grow.
Flood warnings remained in effect across parts of Missouri and southeast Kansas as a deadly winter storm began moving out of the area overnight, leaving at least 10 people dead.
In southwestern Missouri’s Greene County, authorities said Steven Welton, 42, drowned in a creek when his vehicle was washed off a road, and tow truck driver Edward Kammerer, 60, was electrocuted by a downed power line. The State Department is working to notify the soldiers’ families. He said the state was prepared and emergency personnel have been working around the clock.
The National Weather Service said the storm system, which also left 11 dead in a series of tornadoes in Texas, will continue to move toward the northeast, bringing heavy rain and snow.
Travelers in Texas airports were met with widespread delays and cancellations.
For river and stream levels and forecasts around Missouri, see the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service maps and charts for eastern Missouri (St. Louis) and western Missouri (Kansas City) and southwest Missouri (Springfield).
In Texas, the Texas Department of Public Safety says only a small section of the highway around Amarillo remains open.
Roads are closed in almost 500 locations across the state.
I-40 is the main east-west highway through the state’s Panhandle.
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Parts of eastern New Mexico and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles are under a blizzard warning through Monday evening.
