'Massive flood fight' underway in Missouri

Regardless of the possibility that it doesn't rain another drop in Missouri, Kathy Wunderlich's home in West Alton might at present get overwhelmed.

Late downpours have immersed towns, homes, fields and streets in lethal floodwater. Despite the fact that the tempests are gone, the waterways have continued ascending from Texas to Illinois. 

In West Alton, close St. Louis, overflow pushed the Mississippi River over the levees on Tuesday, and Wunderlich was set out toward higher ground with her things close by.

Wednesday morning, ethereal cameras caught parts of the more noteworthy St. Louis range submerged. A shopping range was half submerged, a sign for a Jimmy John's sandwich shop at the highest point of a building still obvious over the water line.

A visibly exhausted James Harris told KMOV that if his house floods, he's not moving back. "It wears you out," he said. "This is the last time I'm going to do this."

Early Wednesday morning, rescuers reached Jean Scott's trailer in the tiny town of Pacific, Missouri. Water was approaching her door, she said.

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"They came and got us and put us in a raft and took us across the railroad tracks," Scott said.

The rescuers took her to a nursing home where "everybody is real friendly," she said.

But she worries that her home is devastated. No one has given her an update. And she's also concerned about her neighbors. 

"I really feel for the people. I really do. My heart goes out to them," she said, adding that she has no patience for people who take risks. 

"Some of these people on the highway trying to drive through this stuff -- they're very stupid," she said.