Na stotine ljudi je ob poplavi obtičalo v stanovanjih in hišah. »Videti je bilo kot divja reka. Voda je drla po ulici navzdol,« je poplavo opisala ena od prebivalk Detroita.
🚨🇺🇸 Meanwhile in Detroit, US
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) February 19, 2025
Holy crap - first Detroit flooded & then it froze ‼️ pic.twitter.com/NKq7dfUTDi
Prizadetih naj bi bilo od 150 do 200 domov, materialna škoda je ogromna. Zalilo je kleti, več deset gospodinjstev je ostalo brez elektrike in tople vode. Med 76 ljudmi, ki so jih morali evakuirati s poplavljenega ombočja, je bilo kar 22 otrok.
Župan Mike Duggan je obljubil, da bo mesto povrnilo nastalo škodo. Vsem, ki so ostali brez elektrike, ogrevanja ali vode, pa je mesto Detroit zagotovilo nadomestno nastanitev v hotelih.
Flooding of homes and vehicles after a 54-inch transmission line water main ruptured due to extreme cold in a Southwest Detroit neighborhood. The first emergency call came in at 2 a.m. on Monday, with hundreds of people stranded in their homes as residents scrambled to find… pic.twitter.com/KWsBhYg6gd
— Disasters Daily (@DisastersAndI) February 18, 2025
