More than 40 million people across the Great Plains and the Midwest are on alert Tuesday for severe weather, including what authorities warn could be life-threatening flash flooding in Kentucky and Indiana.
Flash flood warnings are in effect for parts of Kentucky and Indiana, including the city of Lanesville, Indiana, which recorded 8 inches of rain in a matter of hours on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
Rescue crews with boats were responding on Tuesday afternoon to multiple counties in Indiana, where there are reports of people stranded on the roofs of homes due to the flood waters, ABC affiliate station WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, reported.
“My car was halfway submerged in water. It’s just been chaos for the past two hours,” Renea Clark, a resident of Lanesville, told WHAS…