MILWAUKEE – A child and two adults went missing Tuesday after being dragged into a drainage ditch in Milwaukee a day earlier after heavy storms caused heavy rains and damaging winds over much of the Midwest and parts of the South. tell the authorities. .
The teams resumed the search on Tuesday morning of an 11-year-old boy, as well as two men, aged 34 and 37, who entered the water to try to rescue the boy on Monday evening.
Firefighters focused their search on Tuesday on three connected tunnels carrying water to the Kinnickinnic River. Search crews did not enter the tunnels Monday night due to the dangerous conditions and instead sent a drone inside to try to locate the three, officials said. The names of the missing were not immediately released. Police said all three knew each other, but gave no further details.
The water was deep and flowing fast after heavy storms, which also caused damage in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. And the storms continued to punch as they reached West Virginia early Tuesday, where numerous roads were closed by downed trees and power lines.
According to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the country, some 500,000 power customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia were out of service Tuesday morning.
The storms came as high temperatures and humidity settled in states that stretched across parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas. More than 100 million people were facing a combination of heat warnings, excessive heat warnings and excessive heat monitoring until Wednesday after record weekend temperatures in parts of the west and southwest.
In Illinois, a supercell storm with winds above 80 mph (129 km / h) felled trees and damaged power lines Monday evening, leaving a trail of damage in the Chicago area and north. West Indiana, the National Weather Service said.
Numerous reports of wind damage were reported along the storm’s path, with Chicago O’Hare International Airport reporting a gust of 84 mph (135 km / h), the weather service said. Teams were scheduled to assess storm damage Tuesday to determine if there were tornadoes.
In Bellwood, in the western suburbs of Chicago, village officials said winds blew off the roof of an apartment building and injured a young woman who was hospitalized after being hit by a fall. ruins but that was expected to be fine.
“We just heard people screaming that the roof was off, go out, go out,” Larhonda Neal, a resident of WLS-TV, said.
In Northwest Indiana, the weather service reported storm damage to Ogden Dunes and said a 1.5-inch (3.8-centimeter-diameter) hailstorm hit the county town Monday night. of New Chicago Lake.
In Northeast Indiana, the weather service said a 98 mph wind gust was recorded at Fort Wayne International Airport, the strongest wind the airport has ever seen, overshadowing the previous record of A 91 mph gust was recorded on June 30, 2012. Extensive storm damage and fallen trees were reported in Fort Wayne, where winds tore the shingles and insulation of the SkyWest hangar, a company aircraft maintenance southwest of the terminal and runways at Fort Wayne Airport, exposing the aircraft inside, WANE-TV reported.