A 23-year-old Missouri woman has been found dead after being swept away during what officials described as a “once-in-a-millennium” flood. Her death highlights the lethal speed and force of extreme flash flooding, particularly when it strikes residential areas with little warning and overwhelms roads and homes.

The woman, identified as Brianna, was reportedly carried away near her home and later found about two miles away. The article says the flooding hit Missouri amid exceptionally severe conditions, with emergency crews involved in the search and recovery effort. The description of the event as a rare, once-in-a-thousand-year flood underlines both the scale of the disaster and the wider risks posed by increasingly intense weather events.