A search and rescue effort becomes a recovery mission after a man is found dead in an Adair County creek following severe flash flooding Tuesday night.

It happened in the small community of Breeding.

That's where the man made an attempt to save his wife after she became trapped inside her truck near her home.

Officials say the couple is Jodine and Bill Grover.

Authorities say Jodine Grover was just trying to get home from work when things went terribly wrong.

"The water has a tendency to pick up and roll when it starts raining like it did last night," said Greg Thomas, director of Adair County Emergency Management.

Officials say Jodine Grover was driving her Chevy truck when flood waters picked it up and moved it downstream.

She needed help and called 911.

"Last night the water was up waist high to her sitting in the truck and you can still see on the truck seat where the water line was," Thomas said.

The woman also called her husband, Bill Grover, and with their home just a few miles from where his wife was trapped, started after her.

"Her husband did try to make it on a tractor. The tractor was found overturned in the water," Thomas said.

After more than two hours of being hampered by both weather and rough terrain, crews pulled the woman from the water and a search immediately began for her husband.

"A lot of the folks were here since eight o'clock last night, and had gone through two or three changes of clothes in the mud and in the water," Thomas said.

But late Wednesday afternoon Bill Grover was found by search crews just about eight miles from where he was first swept off his tractor near their home.ʚ

Authorities say Jodine Grover was taken to Westlake Regional Hospital in Adair County.

Her condition wasn't available Wednesday evening.

An autopsy is scheduled for Bill Grover in Louisville Thursday.