Jun 11, 2009 4:50 pm US/Central
NW Indiana Hit Hard By Rains
PORTER COUNTY, Ind. (CBS) ―
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Continuous rain in the Chicago region created a tense situation for some Porter County, Ind. residents.
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It's been raining off and on all over the Chicago area since Wednesday night.
But CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports some sections of northwest Indiana were hit especially hard.
Some really wet weather left behind a lot of running water and some high water, which put things under water.
You get the Porter County, Ind. picture.
"We are at the top of a hill," one lucky resident said.
But folks at the bottom of his subdivision's hill had to deal with a sopping, sandy, muddy, mess.
When your feet go in, they don't come out easily. A nearby ditch is the culprit. The rain came down, the water came up and spilled over the banks.
And it took some of the earth with it, right onto the roads. Inches of slime required clean up. So out came crews with heavy equipment to move the muck.
"It was almost like 2 feet deep down here, and there's about a dozen homes back here," Ron Jobe of the Porter County Highway Department said. "They couldn't have even got out until we opened up the road."
It made driving out possible for Robert Walters, who expects it to happen again.
"They call them hundred-year rains. I think we're getting them every year now, though," he said.
If it keeps coming, you might as well call this Seattle East.
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