The deaths of two children in Michigan and Arkansas are being attributed to severe storms that wreaked havoc on areas of the Midwest and South with damaging winds, heavy rains, and flash flooding.
Additionally, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Michigan and Indiana lost electricity as a result of the storms on Monday.
The public safety department of the Michigan city of Monroe reported on Facebook that a 14-year-old girl was electrocuted Monday night in the backyard of her house after getting into touch with an electrical wire that was damaged by a rainstorm.
The youngster, who was with a friend, grabbed for what she thought was a stick, but it was really a power line, according to the department.
Authorities in Arkansas reported that an 11-year-old kid died after being carried into a storm drain on Monday during a period of intense rains.
According to Bentonville police, a lady, 47, who attempted to assist the youngster was also rescued from the drain and sent to a hospital for treatment.
According to the National Weather Service, slow-moving thunderstorms delivered heavy rain and some flash floods to the region on Monday.
There were several storms in Michigan and Indiana. Wind gusts as high as 58 mph (93 kph) at Battle Creek Executive Airport in Michigan and 60 mph (96 kph) in Huntington, southwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to the meteorological service, caused tree limbs and power lines to fall.
Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi said on Monday night that he was issuing a state of emergency after heavy rains aggravated issues at one of Jackson’s water-treatment facilities and led to low water pressure in parts of the state’s capital.
Days after storms poured a lot of rain, flooding along the Pearl River led Jackson to be evacuated on Monday.
The flooding in Mississippi was not as bad as the storm that wreaked havoc and killed people in Kentucky last month.
At least 39 people died as a result of the floods, and hundreds more families lost all they had.
Residents are debating whether to rebuild where they now call home or to relocate over a month later.