Nearly 3,000 people in the Kansas City area were without power as of 2:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Evergy outage map. Over 600 people in Jackson County, and more than 1,700 in Johnson County were also without power.

Storm drains along Interstate 435, a beltway that encircles most of the Kansas City metropolitan area, were unable to keep up during the deluge, he said, causing the highway to flood. Most of the rescues from vehicles took place at the highway’s 23rd St. exit, he said.