The Midwest and Central Plain states aren't the only ones facing severe weather and heavy flooding. Over 160 people were killed and more are missing
and feared dead due to heavy rains and floods. At least 60 people in Haiti were killed and an estimated 59 were died in near the Haiti/Dominican
Republic border. At least one death was accounted in Puerto Rico due to the heavy rains.
Floods kill at least 160 in Caribbean
In the Dominican Republic, frantic relatives dug through the mud for loved ones as a makeshift morgue filled up with 100 corpses of people swept away
in rains that devoured a small farming village.
Nearly 200 others were missing and feared dead, National Emergency Commission Director Radhames Lora Salcedo said Monday, hours after rains caused the
Solie River to burst its banks before daybreak. Only a torrent of debris-filled mud flowed where houses once stood.
Bloated bodies caked with mud were piled in a hospital's makeshift morgue in western Jimani near the Haitian border. A reporter for The Associated
Press estimated there were about 100 bodies.
Some of the corpses were left at the side of the road, waiting for relatives to identify and claim them.
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With the numerous tornadoes and flooding happening in the USA and now in the Caribbean, thoughts of global warming and catastrophic weather seems to
be coming into fruition. I have many concerns about this year's Atlantic Hurricane season and can only hope that a big one doesn't come my way.
