Midwest Floods

This pretty much happens every year,but this year we had some torrential rains and we haven’t even gotten to the snow melt yet.  It will be interesting if we will have another 500 year flood, because up north they hav had record amounts ofsnowfall.

Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest

Jim Perotti, head of maintenance for Holiday Shores Lake, clings to a depth gauge after becoming trapped by the suction force of a drain in Illinois on March 19.

Perotti was stuck in the frigid water for more than an hour before he was rescued and airlifted to a hospital in serious condition.

The torrential downpours that battered the Midwest also took two lives in southern Illinois, when floodwaters swept a truck off a rural road, the Associated Press reported.

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—Photograph by John Badman/The Telegraph/AP

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