4 die in Minnesota flooding

NF Reporter · 08-19-2007, 01:45 PM

AP - Severe storms deluged parts of the upper Midwest during the night with as much as a foot of rain, causing flooding that washed away bridges and roads and killed at least four people, authorities said Sunday.

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waltky · 08-27-2007, 01:39 AM

Rest of the Mid-west gets hit...

Storms pound United States Midwest, 18 dead
Monday, August 27, 2007 - Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. were without power after their homes were battered by fierce winds and flooding rainstorms that slammed the rain-soaked Midwest.

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Tornado warnings were issued Saturday afternoon for parts of central and southeast Ohio. Downed trees and power lines were reported in the southern part of the state, said National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Hatzos. Flooding this week spread across an 80-mile (130-kilometers) swath through the northwest and north central parts of the state. Gov. Ted Strickland toured some of the damaged areas Saturday.

"What I've tried to do, and what we've all tried to do, is let these folks know ... that we are working to get assistance to them as rapidly as possible," Strickland said. Powerful storms rolling through the Upper Midwest during most of the past week caused disastrous floods from southeastern Minnesota to Ohio that were blamed for at least 18 deaths.

In southern Michigan, the skies were clearing, but more than 100,000 customers were without power, utilities said. The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornadoes touched down Friday in a 12-mile (19-kilometer) area in Livingston, Genesee and Oakland counties. Damage in Fenton was extensive, Mayor Sue Osborn said Saturday. "I have seen houses that have trees go right through them," she said. Only residents were being allowed into the city, she said.

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