Search continues for Missouri woman who washed away

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POWE, Mo. (AP) -- Searchers in southeast Missouri continue to look for a 39-year-old woman who was pulled under water after her car ended up in a ditch during a Christmas Eve storm.

The Southeast Missourian reported that Shirley Stratton of Bernie, Mo., was driving on Route U near the town of Powe Thursday morning when her car hydroplaned into a ditch. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said two men stopped to help, but Stratton was pulled under by the heavy current caused by more than 3 inches of rain that fell that day.

Trooper Richard Owens said the search has shifted upstream to where the ditch empties into the St. Francis River.

Heavy rain on Thursday in southeast Missouri prompted several road closures.

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