KIRKSVILLE, MO ( KPLR ) -
Massive storms that blew threw the bi-state Wednesday night into Thursday morning have left a trail damage and trouble. Three people are confirmed dead in Missouri.
The three victims were all killed in a tornado that hit the area around Kirksville. Sixty buildings were damaged in the city limits there alone. Governor Jay Nixon has already visited the area, and the National Weather Service has crews spread across Northeast Missouri assessing damage.
Meanwhile, they are cleaning up in Gillespie Illinois after a strong storm pummeled the town overnight. Homes, businesses and schools were damaged.
The mayor estimates some 40 homes and a dozen businesses were hit. The high school's field house, which was under construction, was blown into the middle school building. Classes were canceled for the day.
After engineers inspected the middle school building it was determined to be safe and classes will resume Monday. The district has been hard hit. Just weeks ago they had to close the elementary school because of mine subsidence and all students were sharing the high and middle school buildings.
No one was hurt. The storm provided a lot of challenges for John Hicks. He's the town's new mayor and this was only his second day on the job.
The local food pantry had to move it's perishable food to a pantry in Springfield Illinois after the building lost electricity.
Power crews converged on the scene.
Flooding is the issue in Ste. Genevieve County. Flash flooding shut down several streets there. An overnight downpour dumped nearly three inches of rain of the small community of Ste. Genevieve.
Several basements flooded in homes in the lower part of the the city, but there was no real damage to report. All but one of the flooded streets were re-opened by morning
Officials not only think the heavy downpour helped flood the streets, but they also blame the recent wet weather they say the ground is so saturated right now the any new rain has no place to go.
Closer to home, high winds tore through the Pine Lawn area of North County, collapsing a tree on one woman's home.
Sharnique Jones woke up to the damage.
"When i got up i couldn't see. it was so dark outside and i heard my brother say get up get up and when i got out of the bed, that part fell down."
In South St. Louis, the Roosevelt Ninth Grade Center was flooded out, and will force students to be moved to Roosevelt High School for the remainder of the year.
The three victims were all killed in a tornado that hit the area around Kirksville. Sixty buildings were damaged in the city limits there alone. Governor Jay Nixon has already visited the area, and the National Weather Service has crews spread across Northeast Missouri assessing damage.
Meanwhile, they are cleaning up in Gillespie Illinois after a strong storm pummeled the town overnight. Homes, businesses and schools were damaged.
The mayor estimates some 40 homes and a dozen businesses were hit. The high school's field house, which was under construction, was blown into the middle school building. Classes were canceled for the day.
After engineers inspected the middle school building it was determined to be safe and classes will resume Monday. The district has been hard hit. Just weeks ago they had to close the elementary school because of mine subsidence and all students were sharing the high and middle school buildings.
No one was hurt. The storm provided a lot of challenges for John Hicks. He's the town's new mayor and this was only his second day on the job.
The local food pantry had to move it's perishable food to a pantry in Springfield Illinois after the building lost electricity.
Power crews converged on the scene.
Flooding is the issue in Ste. Genevieve County. Flash flooding shut down several streets there. An overnight downpour dumped nearly three inches of rain of the small community of Ste. Genevieve.
Several basements flooded in homes in the lower part of the the city, but there was no real damage to report. All but one of the flooded streets were re-opened by morning
Officials not only think the heavy downpour helped flood the streets, but they also blame the recent wet weather they say the ground is so saturated right now the any new rain has no place to go.
Closer to home, high winds tore through the Pine Lawn area of North County, collapsing a tree on one woman's home.
Sharnique Jones woke up to the damage.
"When i got up i couldn't see. it was so dark outside and i heard my brother say get up get up and when i got out of the bed, that part fell down."
In South St. Louis, the Roosevelt Ninth Grade Center was flooded out, and will force students to be moved to Roosevelt High School for the remainder of the year.
