johnnymk
06-07-2008, 07:40 PM
This doesn't look good for Dark Fury.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/06/07/5807071-ap.html
FRANKLIN, Ind. - Severe storms flooded central Indiana with as much as 25 centimetres of rain Saturday and spawned tornadoes that ripped up roofs and flipped tractor-trailers in Wisconsin and the Chicago suburbs.
The floods in Indiana threatened dams, inundated highways and forced the U.S. coast guard to rescue residents from swamped homes. To the northwest, Chicago-area residents ran for cover as tornadoes touched down throughout the region.
Wisconsin had a few minor tornado injuries and at least one injury was reported near Chicago. Indiana had been spared any reported deaths or injuries due to flooding.
"At this point, mercifully, we believe all Hoosiers are secure," Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said at a news conference.
"We hope that will continue."
Daniels declared an emergency in 10 counties as the coast guard was called in from the Great Lakes to help with flooding that has forced hundreds of people from their homes.
Ninety per cent of the small town Paragon, southwest of Indianapolis, was underwater, State Homeland Security Director Joe Wainscott said.
Water reached the first floor of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin but no patients had to be moved, county Commissioner Tom Kite said and cars were submerged up to their windshields in the county government building parking lot.
"We have dams failing in the Prince's Lakes area," threatening the town Nineveh, about 50 kilometres south of Indianapolis, Kite said.
Indiana State Police reported evacuations in the Lake Lemon area about 15 kilometres northeast of Bloomington. Dams near Gold Point were close to collapse, police said
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/06/07/5807071-ap.html
FRANKLIN, Ind. - Severe storms flooded central Indiana with as much as 25 centimetres of rain Saturday and spawned tornadoes that ripped up roofs and flipped tractor-trailers in Wisconsin and the Chicago suburbs.
The floods in Indiana threatened dams, inundated highways and forced the U.S. coast guard to rescue residents from swamped homes. To the northwest, Chicago-area residents ran for cover as tornadoes touched down throughout the region.
Wisconsin had a few minor tornado injuries and at least one injury was reported near Chicago. Indiana had been spared any reported deaths or injuries due to flooding.
"At this point, mercifully, we believe all Hoosiers are secure," Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said at a news conference.
"We hope that will continue."
Daniels declared an emergency in 10 counties as the coast guard was called in from the Great Lakes to help with flooding that has forced hundreds of people from their homes.
Ninety per cent of the small town Paragon, southwest of Indianapolis, was underwater, State Homeland Security Director Joe Wainscott said.
Water reached the first floor of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin but no patients had to be moved, county Commissioner Tom Kite said and cars were submerged up to their windshields in the county government building parking lot.
"We have dams failing in the Prince's Lakes area," threatening the town Nineveh, about 50 kilometres south of Indianapolis, Kite said.
Indiana State Police reported evacuations in the Lake Lemon area about 15 kilometres northeast of Bloomington. Dams near Gold Point were close to collapse, police said