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Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
Here's how your donation can help:
$25 Provides a care package with essential supplies for a family in need.
$50 Food & Water Assistance.
$250 Counseling and grief support: .
$500 Financial Assistance for funeral cost
$1,000 Long term Food, water, shelter, and hygiene supplies for those displaced or unable to return home.
Reminder: Employees submit a match request for monetary donations. If your employer requires an Employer Identification Number (EIN) 45-3088713.
LANESVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) — Over eight inches of rain caused extreme flash flooding Tuesday afternoon in Lanesville, Indiana.
The flash flooding turned streets into rivers, trapped neighbors in their homes and businesses and caused some to take shelter on rooftops.
According to emergency management officials, live power lines were in the floodwaters and 500-gallon liquid propane tanks were floating.
The measurement of rain as of 1 p.m. was 8.38 inches.
"I'm kind of worried about the people that are living down there right now because no one really had any time to prepare for it this morning," resident Preston Martin said. "It only happened within a couple hours."
Rescue crews from multiple counties responded with boats to help reach people.
Sgt. Ryan Houchen, a spokesperson for the Highlander Fire Protection District, said emergency management officials were monitoring the situation after a warning came just after 11 a.m. from the National Weather Service.
They were alerted that "Lanesville had been flooded and they needed assistance from everybody in the area," Houchen said.
Shelbie Steele works at the First Harrison Bank on Highway 62 and told WDRB the bank was filling with water. Steele said three people were stuck in the bank, sitting on desks until first responders arrived in boats. She estimated more than 3 feet of water was rushing down Main Street.
"It's rough," Steele said. "It about knocked me over."
There were reports of people being trapped in the Dollar General, at a local firehouse and at a church. Officials said they were all safe but could not get out because they were surrounded by water.
"Amazement," Houchen said. "I’ve been through a lot of floods in our area. This is the first time I’ve witnessed something like this before. It was kind of a shock. This is why, when the National Weather
Service puts out warnings; we need to pay attention to them."
Officials asked those affected in the area to make plans in case they need to stay somewhere else for a day or two, depending on the impact of additional rain.
"A lot of people have already been evacuated so it's definitely scary thinking about what's going to happen to their homes and everything," resident Emily Carpenter said.
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Indiana, Disaster Relief Fund: We have provided shelter and over a quarter of a million meals during these disasters.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
Here's how your donation can help:
$25 can provide much needed water to families.
$100 can provide a care package with essential supplies for families in need.
$250 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has access to food and shelter
$1,000 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has long term access to food and shelter.
Reminder: Employees submit match request for monetary donations.
If your employer requires an Employer Identification Number (EIN) 45-3088713
Indiana, Lake Village, takes Direct Hit
In evening briefings, Newton County, Indiana, officials confirmed multiple homes were destroyed in Lake Village.
"Lake Village took a direct hit, please stay away from the area," said Rob Churchill, Lake Township Fire Chief.
"Let the first responders do what they need to do," said Sheriff Shannon Cothran. He described it as "a lot of damage." North Newton Junior High School was being opened for people needing immediate shelter, and school officials were sending a bus to the fire department to provide transportation, he said.
A tornado emergency was declared in Knox, Indiana, on Tuesday, with the National Weather Service telling residents, "This is a life-threatening situation. Seek shelter now!"
An elderly couple from Lake Village, Indiana, was killed in one of the tornadoes on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday. Several others were hospitalized from the storms, officials added.
More than 12,000 energy customers were without power across the Midwest and 23,000 across the Great Lakes region on Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
Bob Wehrle, 60, told NBC News that he received an alert on his phone Tuesday night and, once he started seeing debris flying through the air from the storm, he took shelter in a basement utility room at his home in Kankakee, Illinois.
"Next thing I know, my kitchen is falling in on me," Wehrle said. "The house is falling in, and I’m looking at the sky."
Wehrle said he was not hurt in the storm, but it took his neighbors and family members about an hour to dig him out of the devastation. His wife, Margaret, was not home at the time of the storm because she was working at the hospital.
"The worst was there was a mini fridge in our house that ended up kind of on top of me, on my legs, and I couldn’t get it open to get water out of it," he added, noting that he didn't have to go to the hospital.
