WINFIELD, Mo., June 24 (UPI) -- A flash-flood warning was issued early Tuesday when a levee broke in St. Charles County just up the Mississippi River from St. Louis.
Volunteers were evacuated from the area as water started coming through at about 2 a.m., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. "It's a gradual inundation, no immediate threat to life, but if the levee were to open up wider, there would be problems," said Jon Carney, a National Weather Service meteorologist. "They have holes in the levee and water is gradually filling up that area."