Thunderstorms likely to continue amid flash flood watch
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Chicago and much of northern Illinois are under a flash flood watch through Thursday morning as storms moved through the area Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning.
Thunderstorms are likely to continue this afternoon and evening.
The weather service reported several barely passable roads following heavy rainfall, including a flooded underpass in downtown Elmhurst and a flooded viaduct at Irving Park Road and Ravenswood Avenue.
At least one Metra train was delayed Thursday morning due to weather-related problems. The Milwaukee District North train scheduled to arrive in Chicago at 6:19 a.m. is expected to be 15 to 18 minutes late.
Over an inch of rain is expected during the day and evening on Thursday, with up to two to three inches possible in some areas, according to the weather service.
Comed is reporting that 5,200 customers are impacted by outages, mostly in Chicago and the north region, according to WGN. Power is expected to be restored this morning.
The severe weather follows storms that blew through parts of Cook, DuPage and Will counties Wednesday afternoon, with 1-inch hail falling at Midway Airport, in Summit and in Bourbonnais, according to the National Weather Service.
Wind gusts of 67 mph hit Midway as the thunderstorm rolled through.
In the Bronzeville neighborhood, a four-story apartment building just north of Washington Park, at 51st Street and King Drive, was damaged by high winds on Wednesday, according to a Chicago Fire Department tweet. No one was injured in the incident, but authorities were in the process of evacuating the 90-unit building after it sustained significant damage to its roof, according to Chicago fire and police officials.
About 200 people were displaced, police said.
Chicago Fire Department and Street and Sanitation crews dealt with a number of weather-related emergencies, including trees that fell on buildings including at a home in near 49th Street and Indiana Avenue, said Marjani Williams, a spokeswoman for Streets and San. Anyone who sees a downed tree or has one fall on their home or business should call 311 for help, she said.
Trees were downed throughout the area, as were some power lines. As of about 9:30 p.m., about 7,000 ComEd Customers in Cook County were without power, according to the agency’s power outage map.
Check the Tribune’s weather page for updated forecast information.
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India dust storms: Nearly 100 killed in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan
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The storm affected three districts in Rajasthan state, as well as parts of Uttar Pradesh
At least 95 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The storms on Wednesday disrupted electricity, uprooted trees, destroyed houses and killed livestock.
Many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed after being struck by intense bursts of lightning.
Dust storms are common in this part of India during summer but loss of life on this scale is unusual.
Sixty-four people died in Uttar Pradesh, 43 of them in Agra district which is home to the Taj Mahal monument. Officials say the death toll could increase.
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Falling trees and walls killed many people in the state.
The state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to personally monitor relief operations.
Relief commissioner Sanjay Kumar told PTI that the state government has “sought a detailed report from the affected districts”.
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Hundreds of electricity poles were felled in towns across the two states
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Many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed
Falling trees and walls killed many people in both states
The storms also affected three districts in neighbouring Rajasthan – Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur – where at least 31 people were killed. Officials say Alwar is worst affected. Schools in the district are closed.
The state government has also announced that families of the dead will receive 400,000 rupees (about $6,000; £4,400) as compensation.
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This man in Agra was one of many carried from the debris of their homes
“I’ve been in office for 20 years and this is the worst I’ve seen,” Hemant Gera, secretary for disaster management and relief in Rajasthan, told the BBC.
“We had a high intensity dust storm on 11 April – 19 people died then – but this time it struck during the night so many people sleeping and couldn’t get out of their houses when mud walls collapsed.”
He said teams were trying to restore electricity to homes after 200 to 300 electricity poles were felled in the storm.
The storm also hit the capital Delhi, more than 100km (62 miles) away, along with heavy rains late on Wednesday evening.