Sunday, July 25, 2010

Chicago has something like ten town in Cook County, Illinois declared disaster areas from flooding.

...The heavy rains — which dumped an estimated 60 billion gallons of water on Chicago and parts of Cook County — filled all 190 miles of the Deep Tunnel system, said Terry O’Brien, president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. The district opened floodgates in Wilmette and on the Chicago River to release stormwater into Lake Michigan....