Thousands of people in Kansas and Missouri were without power Monday from weekend storms that swept those states. A man who was in the car with her was rescued. In North Carolina, floodwaters were blamed for the death of a 49-year-old woman whose car was swept off a road in Alexander County late Saturday night. I pray to find these children,” said Courtney, of Ewing, New Jersey. “It’s just such a tragedy and just so much grief, I’m sure, and mourning that’s going on right now. Victims’ names have not been released.Ĭolleen Courtney, attending a church conference near the search scene Monday, was among those praying for the families. Four other people died in the flooding, but it was unclear who they were. The grandmother survived, Upper Makefield Police said in a social media post. The mother was among those later found dead. “However the grandmother, the mother, and the two children were swept away by the floodwaters,” Brewer said. The father and son were “miraculously” able to get to safety. “As they tried to escape the fierce floodwaters, Dad took his 4-year-old son while the mother and the grandmother grabbed the two additional children,” he said. The children are members of a Charleston, South Carolina, family that was visiting relatives and friends when they got caught in a flash flood Saturday, Brewer said earlier. Upper Makefield Township Fire Chief Tim Brewer said Monday the effort would be a “massive undertaking” and that 100 search crew and numerous drones would be looking for the siblings along the creek that drains into the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. (AP) - Crews in suburban Philadelphia on Monday intensified the search for a missing 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister, swept away after weekend rains swelled the banks of a creek while they were driving to a barbecue with their family.
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