The Midwest and the South of the U.S. faced severe storms, damaging winds, heavy rains and flash floods

Three people died due to severe storms accompanied by damaging winds, heavy rains and flash floods in parts of the Midwest and the South. The dead included a couple of two children in Michigan and Arkansas apart of a woman in Ohio. Loss of power led to cancellation of classes in many schools as well as problems to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Indiana and Michigan. One of the girls killed in the Michigan City was a 14-year-old who was electrocuted in the backyard of her home. She had come into contact with an electrical line knocked down by a thunderstorm. In the Detroit-area community of Warren, two boys were hospitalized. One of them touched a power line that was down. Moreover, in Arkansas, an 11-year-old boy lost his life after being swept into a storm drain during heavy rainfall. A woman who tried to help the child was also pulled from the drain and had to be moved to a hospital for treatment. 3 killed, including 2 children, after severe storms hit the Midwest and South.

The National Weather Service revealed that slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall to the area and caused localized flash floods. An official of the weather service in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said – “Those heavy rains, when they fell, a lot of them fell really quickly and in a short time." In Ohio, a woman lost her life after a tree fell on her behind her home in Toledo. At that time, a strong storm had passed through the area. Threw were widespread storms in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. High speed winds downed branches of trees and power lines at different locations. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after excessive rainfall added to the problems in one of the water-treatment plants. It caused to low water pressure through much of the capital city. Incidentally, a swollen Pearl River led to floods in Jackson. It happened after storms dumped heavy rain. The flooding in Mississippi was less severe than flooding that caused death and destruction recently in Kentucky. At the time, the floods left at least 39 dead and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions.

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Detroit man who walks 34-Km daily to go to work

#RochesterHills #detroit #crowdfunding One usually has a rosy picture of America and that those who live there do not face transportation problems but, here is the case of a man from Detroit who has to walk 34-Km daily to go to his work as reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 3 February 2015 – he walks 13 Km to reach his office and 21-Km on the return journey. And, he has never been ate for the past 12-years!!
He is 56-year-old James Robertson and, although he rides buses part of the way to and from his factory job in suburban Rochester Hills, he still has to walk those 34-Km. Of late, he is getting occasional rides from a banker who passes him walking every day and finally asked what he was doing.
He started to walk when his car stopped working ten years ago and the bus service was cut back.
When the news appeared in a newspaper, hundreds of people have crowdfunded and contributed tens of thousands of dollars to help him buy a car and pay for insurance. Some others have offered to drive him for free.
It seems the crowdfunding was started by Evan Leedy, a 19-year-old student at Wayne State University – after reading the story he started a GoFundMe site with the goal of raising $5,000 and has already raised over $70,000.