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Flooding fills tunnels leading to Detroit airport, forces water rescues in Ohio and Las Vegas
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Cars sit stranded in floodwaters on Sheldon Road south of Ford road in Canton, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Officials say parts of southeast Michigan got over 5 inches of rain by Thursday morning resulting in street flooding in the Detroit area, including tunnels leading to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. - photo by David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Heavy rain flooded an Ohio highway where people were rescued from their cars, covered the Las Vegas strip with water and closed a busy airport terminal outside Detroit. Parts of the western United States have been deluged in recent weeks with rain from Tropical Storm Hilary and much of the central U.S. was beaten down by deadly sweltering heat. In Hawaii and Washington, emergency crews battled catastrophic wildfires.