The record rainfall has led to flash flooding in some areas, and the Kansas City Fire Department reported that it has performed 23 water rescues that began shortly after rainfall started Wednesday evening through 8 a.m. Thursday, according to spokesperson Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins.

Heavy rain in the Kansas City, Mo., area inundated neighborhoods and highways on Thursday, prompting nearly two dozen rescues of people stranded in their cars. More than eight inches of rain fell in some parts of the metropolitan area overnight,

Flash flooding across Kansas City overnight led to 23 water rescue calls. All the rescues involved vehicles trapped in high water, with several incidents reported in the East Bottoms and Historic Northeast neighborhoods,