PRYOR, OK(AP) — A music festival in Oklahoma was evacuated because of severe weather Saturday night.
Officials with the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, about 50 miles west of Tulsa, urged attendees around 9 p.m. to head to their cars or the nearby camping area to wait out the incoming weather. They later stressed the campgrounds were not being evacuated.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says at least 15 highways have been closed across the state due to high water from the recent flooding. It also caused damage to a gas station and mall in Oklahoma City.
Evacuation orders have been issued in Elk City, Oklahoma, and Wichita Falls, Texas amid warnings from the National Weather Service about potentially historic floodin