Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in Findlay, Ohio: hundreds displaced

August 23, 2007 | Filed under Environment, News 

Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in Findlay
In downtown Findlay, Ohio the streets have been flooded which caused hundreds of people to be displaced, the cause was heavy rains. Everyone has had to pull together including firefighters and volunteers, who had to use boats to float around the streets that are now like rivers.

Some streets are now waiste high with water, the firefighters and volunteers had to help residents as they were stranded on their flooded porches. About 500 people had to vacate their homes in many towns across Ohio, even 130 inmates in a county jail as well.

The town of Findlay must have been a very strange site from the air, as many people were also out in their canoes and kayaks to help with the rescue effort. The rain has now subsided, bit now Findlay now faces a heat advisory as temperatures are set to rise into the 90s.

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