IND. — A father and son drowned in northwest Indiana while trying to rescue children from a flooded ditch as heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ike forced hundreds of evacuations across the Midwest today. The two men were killed while helping kids escape a ditch in Chesterton, about 35 miles...
Hurricane Ike is being blamed for a weekend of devastation in nine states. The storm and its remnants are responsible for 32 deaths and power outages from Texas to Illinois, on to Ohio, Kentucky and New York. Nearly one and a half million homes and...
Staff report A 22-year-old Perry County, Ind., man was killed Sunday when a large tree branch he had been trying to remove fell and struck him in the head. Travis "Troy" Cronin was pronounced dead shortly before 7 p.m. at a home in a rural part of...
News Source: South Bend Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Ind. (AP) — Heavy rains and strong winds that swept across the Midwest over the weekend caused six deaths in Indiana and flooded hundreds of homes in the state's northwestern corner. A busy stretch of Interstate 80/94 just east of the Indiana-...
Residents of the Midwest faced blackouts affecting more than a million homes and businesses, flooded homes and streets clogged by fallen trees Monday after a weekend of devastating weather caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. The violent weather...
News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Remnants of Hurricane Ike tore through central Ohio, with its whipping winds knocking out electricity to hundreds of thousands of residents, some of whom might be without power for up to a week, an American Electric Power spokeswoman said last night.
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