“Time TV”
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A person in northwest Iowa drowned in his basement throughout extreme flooding that devastated the Midwest this previous week, police mentioned, bringing the loss of life toll within the area to not less than three.
The physique of 52-year-old Kyle Kreykes was found on Monday after he was reported lacking by his household on June 21, Rock Valley Police Chief Monte Warburton informed “Time TV” on Friday.
Kreykes had drowned within the flooded basement of his dwelling the place he lived alone, Warburton mentioned.
Officers couldn’t search Kreykes’s dwelling for a number of days as a result of excessive water ranges, Warburton mentioned. Massive pumps had been introduced in to take away the floodwaters.
President Joe Biden issued a catastrophe declaration for a number of Iowa counties Monday, together with Clay County.
At the least two different deaths have been reported as a result of flooding, officers in Iowa and South Dakota mentioned.
In Clay County, a person died after making an attempt to drive a pickup truck throughout speedy floodwaters on Saturday within the metropolis of Spencer, in keeping with a information launch from the Clay County Sheriff’s Workplace on Tuesday.
The person, who was from Elburn, Illinois, was swept away and located floating within the Little Sioux River, officers mentioned.
On the time, “restoration efforts weren’t tried as a result of very harmful conditions,” the discharge mentioned. Officers recovered the person’s physique Tuesday morning.
South Dakota Freeway Patrol mentioned on Saturday, an 87-year-old man driving a utility car additionally died in a flood-related crash close to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
“The motive force tried to show round, he went backwards over the sting of the washout,” officers mentioned in a information launch Tuesday. “The UTV started to roll and the driving force was ejected.”
Throughout a information convention Sunday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem acknowledged the loss of life and requested residents to steer clear of flooded areas.
“I need to remind everyone to recollect the facility of water and the circulation of water,” she mentioned. “These are severe flood ranges.”
Noem added many upstream river gauges have damaged water circulation and water degree data.
“Time TV”’s Jamiel Lynch contributed to this report.
