CBS News’ Meg Oliver said she encountered several washed-out roads and detours along a five-hour drive across Indiana on Wednesday that was supposed to take three. Even the region’s major interstate highway, I-70, was partly shut down after a section of it buckled under the weight of pounding rain.
And the destruction hasn’t been limited to Indiana: Wednesday’s flash flooding swept as far south as Knoxville, Tennessee, where fire trucks blocked off waterlogged streets. It came on the heels of an initial bout of severe weather that blasted parts of Ohio a day earlier. That storm left a trail of damage described as “historic” by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
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In Munster, scammers have been going door-to-door asking residents and businesses for money to “bring in” the National Guard, according to the town on Facebook.
“This is a scam,” the Town of Munster said. “Please do not give money or personal/financial information to anyone making this claim.”
The Indiana National Guard is deployed and funded by the state, not donations from residents.