Midwest flooding kills at least seven in Indiana before storms move east

Flooding across the US Midwest killed at least seven people in Indiana before the system began easing in mid-August and shifted east into Appalachia.

In the Pacific, forecasters were separately tracking a tropical system expected to strengthen as it approached Hawaii’s Big Island.

The recurring detail

Most flood deaths in developed-country flooding are not people swept from their homes. They are people who entered moving water — usually in a vehicle, usually on a road they knew well. It is the same finding behind the NDMA’s blunt instruction never to drive into a flooded street, covered in our summary of the urban flood do’s and don’ts.

The specifics differ between Indiana and Assam. That one does not.