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Live camera footage showed raging waters at Roaring River following severe storms that swept the southwest region of Missouri Wednesday.
"This is a major, major flood today," said Paul Spurgeon, Roaring River Hatchery manager. "We got about three inches in 40 minutes."
The canyon directly behind the fish hatchery pushed a wave of water and "flushed through there pretty hard," Spurgeon said.
"It looked like it was still coming up," he added. "When the water comes down and gets us from behind like that, it sweeps over the hatchery a little bit."
The main concern is the hatchery building, which rests on the lowest area and is full of fingerlings, or baby trout.