Between 8:45 and 9 a.m.

Highway 69 at Park street closed. Water rising across the highway

Water flooding streets all over town

High waters where old Highway 20 splits off near Pete’s Drive In

North Orphan Street need small kids rescued from home. Water coming into the house

Paged Salina and Chouteau to bring rescue boats to Pryor

8:50 a.m. - Bank of Commerce in Chouteau called about car that was hit by lightning and no one is moving inside vehicle

8:54 a.m. - Shut down Wood Street

9 a.m. - Emergency official to call TV stations - ask people to stay in their residences. Call 911 if water rises into homes.

9:05 a.m. - Page to surrounding

counties’ water teams for help

9:20 a.m. - Pickup bed floating,

barricades floating in Pryor

9:57 a.m. - People trapped in house on Kenwood Road - 10376 Kenwood Road. Three adults and one 6-month-old infant. Water rising in house. May need rescue boat.

9:59 a.m. - respond to Park and Vann several stalled vehicles (water’s

running pretty hard in that area)

10:02 a.m. - Advised traffic south of Highway 69 and Park Street is backed up to 49th street

10:06 a.m. - Need rescue boat for 10376 Kenwood Road

10:07 a.m. - Multiple calls from Kenwood Road. Water approaching several homes

10:07 a.m. - GRDA has flat boat headed to Kenwood Road

10:08 a.m. - Water crossing Highway 20 east of Melugin Road. One van on road that’s empty

10:08 a.m. - Page to Osage fire department, funeral

cancelled

10:10 a.m. - North of Farm and Ranch on Highway 69, 6 inches deep and rising across highway.

10:11 a.m. - Park and Highway 69, will try to inch semi trucks only through water

10:12 a.m. - Railroad bed washed out north of 5th Street. Tell railroad to hold up trains

10:13 a.m. - Only trucks to go through inside lane of northbound traffic on Highway 69

10:18 a.m. - Adair fire paged out for water rescue on 370 Road and 4270 Road

10:27 a.m. - OHP Unit with boat at 29th and Highway 69 needs to get through to fire department. Asking to stop sending traffic, so unit can get through

10:31 a.m. - Need wrecker by IMI, got one hung up

10:31 a.m. - Woman stuck in house with waist deep water

10:32 a.m. - Diverting everything southbound on Highway 69 to west on Highway 20. Still only letting semi trucks through

10:35 a.m. - Warned to be careful sending trucks through - semis are causing wake which goes over the hood of trucks and might get one stalled

10:37 a.m. - Union Pacific Railroad advised track out north of town

10:38 a.m. - OHP airboats at station one fire department

10:41 a.m. - Vehicle off in ditch. Traffic going through Highway 69 slowly

11:03 a.m. - OHP shutting down Highway 20 west of Pryor both west and east bound

11:09 a.m. - Spavinaw Fire asked to bring rescue boat to Salina for standby

11:11 a.m. - 4th and Adair in Pryor, car in water

11:16 a.m. - Chouteau paged out for swift water rescue on N 430 Road north of Highway 412

11:27 a.m. - Park and Adair, white truck stuck and elderly gentleman needs ride to home. His wife is home alone.

11:29 a.m. - Firefighters says town is pretty much cut in half

11:32 a.m. - Report on Highway 69 and 20 that a car on Grand Caravan with three children and two adults. May need boat

11:32 a.m. - Only way to cross town north and south is to take fourth street to Elliott and then head south

11:45 a.m. - Highway 69 reopened

11:52 a.m. - Need to get barricades on Highway 20. Dozens of cars on road heading west and highway is impassible.

The radio traffic died down some by this point, but water rescues continued throughout the day.

Highway 20 was reopened for semis at 3:38 p.m., Friday.

A weather service Web site listed Pryor’s rain total since midnight at 7.70 inches by 3:30 p.m., Friday.