Michigan

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Residential neighborhoods filled with floodwater, a university football field turned into an island, and more devastation were captured in new satellite images from Wednesday that show the extent of flooding in central Michigan.Officials said the Tittabawassee River crested Wednesday night at just over…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday sought federal emergency aid for the devastating flooding that has forced 10,000 to evacuate their homes in the midst of a pandemic. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Whitmer asked that he declare an emergency for Midland County on an expedited basis, MLive reports. The area has been devastated…

Catastrophic flooding could potentially release toxic pollution from site contaminated by Dow Chemical Catastrophic flooding triggered by dam failures in Michigan could potentially release toxic pollution from a site contaminated by the industrial giant Dow Chemical. Dow’s facility in Midland, Michigan, where the company is headquartered along the Tittabawassee River, manufactured chlorine-based products beginning in…

Rapidly rising water overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in central Michigan, where the governor said one downtown could be "under approximately 9 feet of water" by Wednesday. For the second time in less than 24 hours, families living along the Tittabawassee River and connected lakes in Midland County were ordered…

U.S.|2 Dams Fail in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to EvacuateThe failure of the dams was expected to bring record-setting flooding, with the response complicated by the coronavirus.A dam on Wixom Lake in Edenville, Mich., on Tuesday.Credit...Kaytie Boomer/The Bay City Times, via Associated PressPublished May 19, 2020Updated May 20, 2020, 10:57 a.m. ETSevere flooding struck central Michigan…