Search Continues For Missing Country Singer Craig Strickland (Top Story)

Kay County Sheriff Everette VanHoesen said the enormity and unpredictable nature of the lake catches many inexperienced boaters by surprise. The lake has about 168 miles of shoreline, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Saturday, the search is set to resume, using four canines, instead of two, that are capable of locating people underwater, a helicopter, a boat with sonar scanning devices and on land, according to OHP. The water is now receding and the Missouri Department of transportation opened northbound lanes Thursday, and southbound lanes just before 8 a.m. Friday.

The National Weather Service now expects the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau to top out on Sunday at a foot-and-a-half above the 1993 record. He said this afternoon could reach 36 degrees. The family are prepared for the worst, but they haven’t given up hope that Strickland will be found alive.

The post also describes Strickland and his personality for the first time since the singer’s disappearance. “You alone can hold us up through our most hard trials”. ‘He’s so passionate about his wife, his family, the band – he had a fire in him for the things he loved’. The statement went on to say that his passion for music and the stage has kept them going miles and miles down the road.

She got up and started cleaning out a closet and found a Bible with Craig Strickland’s name inside.

“Every time there’s a post from some random person who I have never met before that says, ‘Hey, I don’t know you, I’m reading this, I’m praying for you, my heart goes out to you, ‘ it’s nearly like I don’t have to hurt on my own”, she told local station 40/29 News.

“You keep track of all my sorrows”. You have collected all my tears in your bottle.

Helen also shared a photo of herself with a group of friends looking out at a lake, thanking her pals for all their support.

“Dreaming with a broken heart today”, Baber said in the post.