A central Missouri farmer is now dealing with flooding from recent intense rainfall. Robert Alpers, who farms near Prairie Home, says they got eight inches of rain in less than a day causing creeks to overflow.

“I’m 63 and I’ve talked to people older than me even that said they’ve never seen… We’ve had some events of four, five and six (inches) but we’ve never had that eight inches and coming down in just a few hours.”

Their levees are holding but the rain was too much for the flat creek bottoms and has pooled up, taking out a couple hundred acres of corn and beans.

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