More rain heading to flooded US midwest as east coast wilts

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

CHICAGO (AFP) — More heavy storms were headed to the flood-ravaged US midwest Monday as the east coast wilted in a sweltering heat wave, the National Weather Service warned.

Local media reported at least eight people were killed in the weekend storms which flooded scores of homes and roadways and left hundreds of thousands without power.

"There are some counties in which every road is closed or under water," said Pat Slattery, a weather service spokesman.

Several tornadoes caused considerable damage as they cut a swath through a nine-state area from Texas to Southern Minnesota on Saturday and Sunday and some areas saw as much as 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain, he said.

"Today our concern has turned to flooding and flash flooding in much of that...