Severe weather caused flooding across the Southern United States on Monday (December 28), leading to a road collapse in South Carolina and two barges to sink in Mississippi.
Storms have battered large parts of the country, bringing with them floods and tornadoes that have killed more than 40 people during the holiday period.
In South Carolina’s Anderson County the rain washed away a portion of a road on December 25, local media reports.
The partial collapse of Guyton road caused a water main to break, cutting off water to local residents.
Heavy rains have also caused severe flooding in parts of Arkansas.
By Monday 11 counties in Arkansas had been declared disaster areas due to the flooding, local media reports.
Floodwaters overran fields and roads in Fayetteville in Northwest Arkansas.
A flash flood warning was also in effect in eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, the National Weather Service said. Thirteen people died in flash floods in those two states during the weekend.
In Missouri rising waters caused three barges to drift up the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on Saturday where they then got stuck on the Stennis Lock and Dam.
One of the barges sank early on Monday morning, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers officials told a local NBC news affiliate.