Midwest Storms Bring Flooding, Kill 3

Tornado Touches Down In Omaha; Thousands Without Power In Ind., Michigan

(CBS/AP)  The rising White River also forced officials in the southern city of Seymour to order a mandatory evacuation of more than 100 homes.

In western Indiana, Terre Haute also was dealing with serious flooding. Daniels said that there had been some looting reported in the city but that extra police had been sent to prevent it from happening again.

Travel was getting easier on two major north-south highways. Indiana State Police said Interstate 65 from Indianapolis to Louisville, Ky., and U.S. 31 north and south of Columbus were reopened after being closed for about a day by the flooding. But several state highways remained closed as a result of the record flooding that continued along the White, Wabash and Flatrock rivers.

A Johnson County dam was breached by the high water but had not failed, Erickson said.

"It's in bad shape," Erickson said.

A shelter set up in Columbus filled with people, Erickson said. Shelters were also open in several other counties.

"Obviously we don't need any more rain," he said.

Indiana caught a break on that front, at least for a day, as most of the state was hot and dry. However, more thunderstorms could hit central Indiana Monday and continue into Tuesday, possibly dropping another inch of rain.

"If you get another inch or so of rain where they've already had 11 inches of rain, it doesn't help their situation, but it doesn't return to flooding anywhere near what they already saw," weather service Hydrologist Al Shipe said. "We're not out of the woods yet."

Part of southern Indiana from Spencer to Edwardsport could see high water as bad or worse than record flooding in 1913, forecasters say.

In northern Indiana, a line of thunderstorms swept through Saturday night, and one tornado touched down briefly northwest of Marion, according to the National Weather Service. No deaths or injuries were reported, and the twister caused minor property damage.

Besides high water, residents were also dealing with power outages. Duke Energy reported that 87,000 customers had lost power since Friday evening. Electric had been restored to all but 6,221 by Sunday morning, and those customers might have to wait as flooding was preventing crews from getting to downed lines and failed transformers, the utility said.

[grammawhamma]

Well, we''''re looking at a repeat. Fifteen years later we''''re staring another "hundred year flood" in the face.

Tell me climate change is a fairy tale.
Posted by creeper00 at 06:22 PM : Jun 08, 2008

Ummmmm...aren''t you contradicting yourself? Climates are cyclic as alot of us have been trying to tell the Algoraphobics.

[feelfree4u]

Why is the front page littered with an ad from this oily-faced petro-pirate from the kleptocrats at Exxon-Mobil?

Does CBS Newz have no shame at all?

[creeper00]

And it''s repeating today. With five more days of rain in the forecast.

Do you remember 1993? That was the year most of the Midwest was under water from incessant rain. Downtown Grand Forks burned because it was so flooded the fire department could do nothing.

Well, we''re looking at a repeat. Fifteen years later we''re staring another "hundred year flood" in the face.

Tell me climate change is a fairy tale.