MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Extreme storms that introduced damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to elements of the Midwest and the South are being blamed for the deaths of two kids in Michigan and Arkansas.
Monday’s storms additionally knocked out electrical service to lots of of hundreds of houses and companies in Michigan and Indiana.
Within the Michigan metropolis of Monroe, a 14-year-old woman was electrocuted Monday evening within the yard of her house after coming into contact with {an electrical} line that was knocked down by a thunderstorm, the general public security division mentioned in a Fb submit.
The woman was with a good friend and she or he reached for what she believed was a stick, however it turned out to be the ability line, the division mentioned.
In Arkansas, an 11-year-old boy died after he was swept right into a storm drain throughout heavy rainfall Monday, authorities mentioned.
A 47-year-old girl who tried to assist the kid was additionally pulled from the drain and brought to a hospital for remedy, in keeping with police in Bentonville. Gradual-moving thunderstorms introduced heavy rainfall to the realm Monday and precipitated localized flash flooding, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned.
The storms have been widespread in Michigan and Indiana. Tree branches and energy strains fell whereas winds gusted as excessive as 58 mph (93 kilometers per hour) at Battle Creek Government Airport in Michigan and 60 mph (96 kilometers per hour) in Huntington, southwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the climate service reported.
On Monday evening, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves mentioned that he was declaring a state of emergency after extreme rainfall exacerbated issues in one among Jackson’s water-treatment crops and precipitated low water strain by way of a lot of the capital metropolis. A swollen Pearl River caused flooding in Jackson on Monday, days after storms dumped heavy rain.
The Mississippi flooding was much less extreme than flooding that precipitated demise and destruction in Kentucky last month. These floods left at the least 39 useless and robbed hundreds of households of all of their possessions. Almost a month later, residents are wrestling with whether or not to rebuild on the place they name house or to start over somewhere else.
