Because of high water and heavy rains, a search for an unidentified person and a vehicle that went missing in Jackson County, Alabama, Feb. 5 after being swept away by high waters on a creek in Buck’s Pocket State Park might not resume for days or longer, authorities said Wednesday.
“The search has been suspended indefinitely due to weather that is incoming to the area,” Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Senior Trooper Chuck Daniel said of search efforts on South Sauty Creek. Those efforts have been continually hampered by heavy rain and have not resumed since the weekend.
“I think they got more rain than they did the previous week when the incident happened,” Daniel said Wednesday. “I can imagine Buck’s Pocket right now is as bad or worse than last week.”
When the rain let up enough, search teams have been able to look along the creek and use some equipment to look for the vehicle, Daniel said.
“They were able to do some probing with a large track hoe and a magnet in the water,” he said. “They thought they had found something magnetic but it turned out not to be a car.