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| Flood misery engulfs US Midwest | Flood misery engulfs US Midwest |
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| Floods from a week of thunderstorms in the US Midwest have swamped thousands of homes and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. | Floods from a week of thunderstorms in the US Midwest have swamped thousands of homes and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. |
| Further rain has pushed the floodwater higher in northern Illinois where people are using sandbags in a bid to keep back the rising Des Plaines river. | Further rain has pushed the floodwater higher in northern Illinois where people are using sandbags in a bid to keep back the rising Des Plaines river. |
| Seventeen deaths are attributed to the weather after early estimates of 25. | Seventeen deaths are attributed to the weather after early estimates of 25. |
| But weather forecasts suggest the storms have eased off in the Chicago area at least. | But weather forecasts suggest the storms have eased off in the Chicago area at least. |
| The states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota are cleaning up after their earlier flooding. | The states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota are cleaning up after their earlier flooding. |
| Michigan has also been battered by heavy storms, including tornadoes which destroyed or damaged several homes. | Michigan has also been battered by heavy storms, including tornadoes which destroyed or damaged several homes. |
| 'Getting worse' | 'Getting worse' |
| In the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, hundreds of people were piling sandbags against 1-m (4-ft) concrete barriers along the Des Plaines on Friday. | In the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, hundreds of people were piling sandbags against 1-m (4-ft) concrete barriers along the Des Plaines on Friday. |
| "It's just getting worse," fire chief Don Gould told |the Associated Press. | "It's just getting worse," fire chief Don Gould told |the Associated Press. |
| "All these people will be flooded out if we don't move quick." | "All these people will be flooded out if we don't move quick." |
| More than half a million utility customers were left by the storms without power in the Chicago area and about 148,000 remained without electricity on Friday night | More than half a million utility customers were left by the storms without power in the Chicago area and about 148,000 remained without electricity on Friday night |
| A hospital in Dyer, Indiana, to the south-east of Chicago, was being evacuated as water from a flooded creek seeped in. | A hospital in Dyer, Indiana, to the south-east of Chicago, was being evacuated as water from a flooded creek seeped in. |
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