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Southwest Wisconsin town hit by flash floods
Flash floods have affected a southwest Wisconsin town for the second time in 10 months while 60 miles (100 kilometres) away an embankment along the man-made Lake Delton gave way.
- AP
- Published: 00:03 June 11, 2008
Wisconsin: Flash floods have affected a southwest Wisconsin town for the second time in 10 months while 60 miles (100 kilometres) away an embankment along the man-made Lake Delton gave way.
The water poured out into the nearby Wisconsin River and the powerful current unleashed washed out part of a highway, swept away three homes and tore apart two others.
The swollen Kickapoo River engulfed nearly the entire village of Gays Mills on Monday, forcing about 150 people to evacuate.
The town was reduced to a grid of canals with cars submerged up to their windows and parking lots looking like lakes, just as it was last August.
Floodwater threatened dams across the Midwest, and military crews joined desperate sandbagging operations to hold back Indiana streams surging toward record levels.
Stormy weekend weather was blamed for ten deaths, most in the Midwest.
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