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Wednesday 23 august 2017

Kansas, Missouri storms lead to water rescues, 1 death

By JIM SUHR Monday night into the next
Associated Press morning, with dozens of
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — others fielded in the sub-
Authorities blamed flash- urbs.
flooding Tuesday for the As much as 9 inches (22
death of a man whose centimeters) of rain fell on
car was swept away by one city neighborhood
a torrent linked to thun- during the storm. A large
derstorms that pummeled swath of the region saw 4
portions of Kansas and Mis- to 6 inches (10 to 15 centi-
souri, prompting numerous meters) of rain.
rescues of stranded motor- In the Kansas City suburb
ists and others who scram- of Overland Park, Kansas,
bled to safety atop a roof fire officials said a family of
and tree. seven — three adults, four
Sheriff’s officials in Kan- children — and at least
sas’ Miami County say the one pet sought safety on
body of 56-year-old Robert the roof of a house after
Dean Schoenhals of Pleas- flooding along the Blue Riv-
anton was found about 2 Overland Park Fire Department officials wait for floodwaters to recede before attempting to res- er inundated the one-story
½ hours after a deputy re- cue a family stranded on the roof of their home in Overland Park, Kan., on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. structure.
ported seeing Schoenhals Several roadways in the Kansas City area are flooded and blocked off to traffic after overnight Firefighters had been wait-
rains pounded the region.
try to drive through high (Rich Sugg /The Kansas City Star via AP) ing for the waters to re-
standing water on a high- cede before making any
way before dawn and hy- Schoenhals’ car was found (135 meters) from where a.m., about 75 yards (70 move to assist the family
droplane into a ditch with unoccupied about 45 min- it left the road. The man’s meters) from his vehicle. down from its perch, but a
deep, rushing water. utes later, roughly 150 yards body was found about 7:20 To the northeast in Kansas civilian came to the rescue
City, police and fire de- with a military-style truck
partments reported receiv- and helped those strand-
ing more than 130 calls for ed people to safety, end-
water rescues during the ing their eight-hour ordeal.
storms that stretched from q

Commuter train crashes into

parked train, injuring dozens

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — pital and released.
A commuter train crashed National Transportation
into a parked train at a Safety Board officials were
suburban Philadelphia ter- at the scene and planned
minal early Tuesday, injur- a 5 p.m. briefing.
ing dozens of passengers A passenger, Raymond
and the train’s operator, a Woodard, told WPVI-TV
transit spokeswoman said. that he was riding home
None of the 42 people hurt from work on the train when
in the crash suffered life- it crashed. “I heard the
threatening injuries, said train going real fast ... like,
Heather Redfern, a spokes- super-fast,” Woodard said.
woman for the Southeast- “And I looked up, and I saw
ern Pennsylvania Transpor- that we’re at 69th Street
tation Authority. “Some and said, ‘Why are we go-
were considered walking ing so fast?’ And then we
wounded,” she said. just hit the train. Boom! I fell
An inbound Norristown out of my chair, glass from
High Speed train crashed the window shattered, I
into an unoccupied train at hit my head. Everybody
the 69th Street Terminal in was on the floor.” An NTSB
Upper Darby around 12:15 photo of the train that was
a.m. Redfern said hours rear-ended showed only
later that the train operator what appeared to be light
had been treated at a hos- damage.q