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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Mayor of Carmel city's tips for Kolkata

James Brainard, the six-time mayor of Carmel city in Indiana, US, is on an official visit to India and was stuck in a traffic jam at Park Circus for almost 15 minutes while he was on his way to the US consulate on JL Nehru Road from Salt Lake. It was a distance of 15-Km and the stranding cost him a break he had wanted to take before attending a fair at the consulate. The fair was part of the US government's campaign to create awareness about climate change.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 21 November 2015.

Because of the traffic jam, he offered a few tips to the concerned authorities. He had observed that the city was very chaotic... too many cars as well as people on the road.
His Carmel is a suburban city in Hamilton County of Indiana and is spread over 207sq km with a population that stood at 86,000 in the 2013 census, up from the 25,000 recorded 20 years ago. In contrast, while Kolkata was spread over an area of about 200sq km, its estimated population was 4.573 crore as per 2011 census.
In spite of that, he felt that if some simple things like keeping pavements free of obstruction could be maintained, it would prevent people from getting on to the road and, as a result, block the vehicular traffic.
However, his suggestions have not fund favor with the local Mayors. The mayor of Salt Lake commented that he respected his ideas but it would not be feasible to implement in Salt Lake. The mayor of Kolkata was more brunt. The ideas cannot be implemented that easily in Calcutta which has a population almost 100 times more than Carmel city.

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