Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest

Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
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Jim Perotti, head of maintenance for Holiday Shores Lake, clings to a depth gauge after becoming trapped by the suction force of a drain in Illinois on March 19.

Perotti was stuck in the frigid water for more than an hour before he was rescued and airlifted to a hospital in serious condition.

The torrential downpours that battered the Midwest also took two lives in southern Illinois, when floodwaters swept a truck off a rural road, the Associated Press reported.

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