Just when we didn't need it, more rain and more storms rolled through St. Louis Saturday night. The National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 2.am. With the ground already saturated and small creeks and streams out of their banks, the water rolled onto roads. Area police have been handling dozens of calls for cars spinning out in flash flood areas. Downtown, the depressed lanes carrying westbound Interstate 70, were closed for nearly an hour while wreckage was cleared. The Meramec River is causing minor flood damage from Valley Park downstream. Lightning with the storm has been hitting transformers and cutting electrical service. St. Louis' storm damage, though, was small compared to southwest Missouri where a tornado killed three people near Seneca in Newton County late Saturday. Another person died when high winds blew a tree onto a trailler. Those storms, including the one carrying the tornado, passed well south of St. Louis, heading east toward Indiana.
