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Flooding from torrential rain killed at least 12 people in two US states, washing away roads and homes and prompting dramatic rescues of those trapped on roofs and in cars, reports said Monday.Six died in the north midwestern state of Minnesota as a result of the flooding, the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis said, updating an earlier toll of four.In Oklahoma, in the central midwest, local authorities said slow moving storms had left six dead, as the remnants of tropical storm Erin dumped heavy rain there and triggered flooding,The Oklahoman daily reported.US television showed dramatic pictures of people perched helplessly atop a sinking truck and hanging from a rescue helicopter after being hauled out of the vast brown flood waters.The dead in Oklahoma included a woman who drowned in her cellar which filled with water overnight, as well as a man who apparently drowned in his truck and three women who were in a van that was swept into fast-moving waters, the newspaper said.In Minnesota Sunday more than one car plunged into a 30-feet (nine metres) deep pit after rain washed away a road overnight in the small town of Witoka, Bob Reinert, the administrator of southern Winona County, told AFP Sunday.Railroad bridges, houses and buildings were all swept away in the flooding with six to eight inches of rain falling in some areas.More rain was expected overnight Monday to Tuesday.While the weakening storm drifted across Oklahoma, powerful Hurricane Dean battered Jamaica later on Sunday and could later strike the southern US coast in Texas.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070820122158.bfl4h6vl&show_article=1
As in the days of Noah....
