Severe storms that tore across parts of the Midwest this week left behind a trail of destructive flooding, downed trees, power outages and other damage, with central Indiana continuing to face some of the worst flooding as rivers remained dangerously high.
The storms turned deadly in Indiana, unleashing torrential rainfall that inundated communities, damaged homes and businesses, flooded roads and prompted emergency warnings across the region. The flooding comes amid a broader stretch of extreme weather across the United States, with dangerous heat fueling wildfire concerns in the West while repeated rounds of thunderstorms soaked parts of the Midwest and East.
At least three people died in the powerful storms Tuesday, including a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a tree toppled onto his home in Indiana. In Gary, a 58-year-old woman was struck and killed by roofing material from a nearby store, while another woman died in northwest Indiana after a house explosion during the storms…