Some Springfield streets looked more like rivers today.
As much as three and half inches fell in some areas in just a few hours.
Fortunately the water has dried up... here.
It is a much different story in Webster County.
The county's road and bridge crew had quite a bit of work to do northeast of Niangua.
Several rivers converge there, and when there's a lot of rain in not a lot of time, there are a lot of problems.
Webster County Road Superintendent Wayne Turner tells it like this, “basically it started in January. We got six tornadoes in one night. Right after that we had flooding rains.”
Then an ice storm, more rain, and a March flood Webster County is still recovering from.
Throw in Friday’s excessive precipitation on top of that, and those are all the ingredients needed to cook up a pretty problematic storm season.
This year Webster County road crews have repaired or replaced about 30 bridges, low water crossings, and culverts- like the one damaged Friday- all as a result of flooding.
“We’ve got seven more scheduled,” and Turner says that’s abnormally high.
We all know that flooding can wash away portions of roads and bridges, but it also takes its toll on crops.
The water has completely flatted a wheat field 4 miles northeast of Niangua, and it and broke off some of the stalks.
Jon Medlock is a lifelong resident of Webster County.
In fact he lives in the only house in this low-land area.
“It was all underwater, biggest I've seen it in many years,” Medlock explains.
And he’s seen a few floods.
But he'll probably feel this one too- in his pocketbook.
“It hurts a lot. We've put a lot of money into it; time, fertilizer, seed, fuel. High as everything is it might be a total loss."
The river that flooded Jon's fields is the Little Bowen.
It and the Big Bowen flow into the Osage fork of the Gasconade.
He says its usually the Osage River causing all the problems, so Friday afternoon’s flood took him by surprise.