Losing its devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubbed the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters that are being blamed for at least 15 deaths. The violent...
News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
8, including at least five in Harris County from carbon monoxide poisoning. A woman in Port Arthur died when she was refueling a generator that caught fire in a house without electricity. Louisiana--six, including two contractors who were...
Officials urged patience Wednesday on the part of Midwesterners waiting for power to be restored as crews worked feverishly to clean up the soggy mess left by the deadly remnants of Hurricane Ike over the weekend. Fallen trees still blocked roads...
The power blackouts that followed Hurricane Ike have caused the widest outage for U.S. Internet service since 2003, according to a firm that tracks Internet connectivity. Internet connections in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit,...
News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 year ago
Ind. – Damage from weekend wind storms that raked the state left thousands of southeast Indiana residents facing the prospect Wednesday of no electricity until next week, little water and even shortages of gasoline to power their cars and...
News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| about 1 year ago
Floodwaters continued to surge downstream Tuesday, leaving residents along the Illinois River warily eyeing the rising water while those in some northern Illinois communities began cleaning up a wet, stinky mess. Hurricane Ike's substantial remnants...
News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
In other parts of the Midwest, residents warily eyed rising rivers while other waterlogged communities began cleaning up the wet, stinky mess left behind by floodwaters. Flood warnings remained in effect Wednesday across the region. As much as 10...
News Source: South Bend Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Ind. (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels declared a state of disaster in flooded Lake and Porter counties Tuesday after surveying waterlogged communities by air and boat. Daniels got a close look at northwest Indiana's flood damage as he toured the region in...
Just a few months after near-record flooding across the Midwest, roads in the region were under water again Tuesday and more than 1 million people were without power thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Ike. "The old-timers knew it was wise to leave...
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