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Storm sea water flooded the runways at Mitchell International Airport during the Thursday gloaming storm. Airport officials said they hoped to perspicuous away residual debris and reopen the runways on Friday, but further disruptions were plausible because of a original spell of showers and thunderstorms that was expected to permit though the region. Up to 7.5 inches of fall fell in just two hours Thursday evening, snarling above in and around Milwaukee and causing widespread pull outages. IN PICTURES: A ogre put down nook in downtown Milwaukee swallowed up a Cadillac Escalade.

Witnesses estimated it to be about 20 feet devious and 15 feet wide. Mark Pawlik, who owns a towing company, helped saving the driver from the hole. "The Escalade just went wham!" Pawlik, 46, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Everything went down.

The dominion stripe went opposite number 'pow' and then I deem it was sewer spray was just pouring into the hole." The driver was charmed to a adjoining hospital. His big name and working order haven't been released. Milwaukee policemen handled 500 weather-related calls throughout the night, Chief Ed Flynn said at a scoop colloquium Friday, including a identify to the Milwaukee River downtown where three officers rescued a bird from the turgid waterway. Flynn said officers also evacuated about 100 plebeians from a flooded Country Inn & Suites hotel.

Two nation were struck by lightning, according to Milwaukee Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing. They were captivated to St. Luke's Medical Center, but there was no bulletin on their conditions.

Some suburban neighborhoods were flooded in Milwaukee County, according to sheriff's Capt. Aisha Barkow. She said the Root River in Franklin and Oak Creek in South Milwaukee were above their banks. A testify division structure in downtown Milwaukee also was closed Friday matinal because of flooding, governmental pinch brass officials said. More than 8,000 of 32,000 We Energies customers who damned impetus in Thursday's storms remained without assistance Friday.

The National Weather Service reported tornado touchdowns near Whitewater, and more between Palmyra and Muskego, but there were no nearby reports of chattels cost or injuries. State crisis conduct spokeswoman Lori Getter estimated at least half a dozen tornadoes may have touched down in the state.

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