Flooding Forces Evacs In OH And WV

Monday, September 20th, 2004 Catastrophe Property

Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan. The Ohio River inundated parts of Wheeling and other West Virginia river towns, as well as communities on Ohio’s shore, and the Delaware River flooded parts of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. In addition to flooding, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were still without electricity Sunday, most of them in Florida and Alabama. The hurricane and its remnants had been blamed for at least 50 deaths in the United States, 16 of them in Florida, and 70 deaths in the Caribbean.

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