WICHITA — Crews searched Saturday for a Wichita man whose pickup truck was swept away by floodwaters after torrential storms dropped up to 7 inches of rain in southern Kansas on Friday night.
Richard Lowery, 62, and his son were in their truck near a creek south of Rose Hill around 10 p.m. when they drove into water over the road and tried to back out, Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet said. Instead, the truck got swept away into the creek, The Wichita Eagle (