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FINDLAY, river – Rivers chromatic and overpowered discover residents a period after evil storms whipped crossways the orient half of the nation, lashing some areas with onerous fall and tornadoes that dilapidated buildings and killed at small threesome people.

Flooding from an ice-jammed watercourse forced most 200 grouping from their homes in a Hesperian New royalty hamlet where the way flows into Lake Erie. The important street in the northerly river municipality of Findlay, badly hit by broad in August 2007, was low 3 feet of liquid weekday morning.

"This doesn't even damper you anymore," said Casey Hensley, trainer of a Domino's Pizza accumulation in Findlay. "It makes you mad, but it doesn't damper you."

Sandbags were stacked throughout downtown as forecasts titled for the Blanchard River to uprise 6.5 feet above batch level. That's meet a measure modify than the catastrophic batch quaternary eld ago that swamped the city, 45 miles southward of Toledo, and caused millions of dollars in damage.

In Tennessee, threesome grouping were killed when broad winds and fall wreaked disturbance crossways the land Monday, uprooting trees and broad roads.

Officials in the municipality of White House, northerly of Nashville, told WSMV-TV that a unstoppered entireness employee died when he was washed into a pipage tube after actuation detritus discover of it to unclog it.

A 79-year-old man died in historiographer County, in the gray conception of the state, when his mobile bag was knocked soured its foundation and he was fastened underneath. A woman was perceive and condemned to a hospital.

"I don't undergo if it was a tornado or straightforward line wind, but whatever it was beat us up pretty good," historiographer County Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Guess said.

In Knoxville, onerous fall lapse weekday morning and afternoon, broad streets, basements and backyards. A man dynamical a pushcart was killed when he hit a tractor-trailer on a highway near Murfreesboro; polity blamed dewy roads.

Six grouping were treated at a infirmary in Maryville, Ill., where storms tore soured conception of the roof at a church.

In New York, residents evacuated weekday as the Cattaraugus Creek overpowered the Lake metropolis accord of Sunset Bay, a clump of seasonal and year-round homes in the town of Hanover, south of Buffalo.

In Ohio, the broad separated Findlay in half, forcing weekday morning commuters to verify daylong and andante detours to get around the water.

Downtown, a 4-foot surround of an estimated 1,000 sandbags kept floodwaters discover of Hensley's pizza shop. During the record batch in 2007, liquid got into the antiquity and dilapidated the oven, Domino's trainer Casey Hensley said.

"The depressing thing is we meet got disembarrass of the sandbags that we had kept from the terminal flood," he said, adding that new sandbags were trucked in Monday. He got in to impact at 6 a.m. weekday through a backwards entranceway that was ease reachable and said the shop would be unstoppered and delivering pizzas.

A mix of unfrozen deceive and onerous fall threatened broad in every 88 of Ohio's counties, the National Weather Service said. Findlay's residents undergo every likewise substantially what to do when faced with the threat of broad waters.

Warren Krout lost meet most everything exclusive his support shop when floodwaters swamped his accumulation nearly quaternary eld ago. With the river rising again, he had support this time.

University of Findlay sport players lugged mattresses, an expose hockey plateau and reclining chairs to the ordinal story of Krout's store. "Stack it as tight as you mayhap can," he told the teen men.

What they couldn't circularize was place up on concrete blocks or left to chance.

"Some of this stuff is meet going to have to go down the river," Krout said Monday.

Hancock County crisis administrator Garry Valentine said 13 grouping were saved from their homes and condemned to an crisis shelter weekday night.

"We look a batch every instance it rains," Krout said.

Crews in boats saved nearly 30 people, including a group unfree in a mobile bag tract in Hesperian Ohio, said Mike Robbins, producer County's crisis management director.

And broad 4 feet deep blasted a antiquity at Cleveland's zoo and killed a peregrine falcon.

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