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Up to 9 Inches of Rain Brings Ind. Floods

Posted on: Thursday, 13 July 2006, 00:00 CDT

By The Associated Press

Up to 9 inches of rain brought flooding to northern Indiana on Wednesday, while a tornado in a county north of New York City partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped the roof off a hotel.

The National Weather Service issued a flood warning Wednesday for several counties in Indiana.

Pam Soule, emergency management director for LaGrange County in Indiana, said a weather observer in Olive Lake reported 9 inches of rain. Floodwaters damaged at least seven homes in Topeka and two homes in Clearspring Township. Topeka firefighters were filling sandbags to protect other homes, but she said conditions were improving.

"Most of the water that was up over the roads has receded to the point they've taken down the high water signs," she said.

Meanwhile, a tornado in Mount Pleasant, N.Y., threw a truck onto gasoline pumps, partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped off a hotel's roof, said Susan Tolchin, chief adviser to Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano.

There were no reported injuries, officials said, but power was knocked out to more than 4,000 residents.

Severe thunderstorms also moved into parts of northern Ohio, dumping additional rain on areas saturated by earlier storms.

Near the eastern Ohio village of Otsego, rain Tuesday night and Wednesday forced road closures, and a heavy line of thunderstorms moving through northwest Ohio left many Toledo streets flooded Wednesday.

Source: Associated Press/AP Online

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