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amount of time, it caused sewer backups in many areas of the county. The hardest hit were the
Northshore areas of Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Glendale, and North-eastern Milwaukee with water reaching five feet in some areas. The areas had just recovered from the earlier flood and were beginning to resume normalcy. The phrase 'insult to injury' was echoed among many of the TV stations for their plight. Other severe floods causing ditches to flow over and basement damage occurred in
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on July 23 as more than ten inches of rain had fallen between the two storms. Damage from flood waters and backed-up sewage led to a decision in
November 2010 to demolish the former St. Michael Hospital, a seven-story 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m) building that had been largely vacant since the
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The flooding also caused one confirmed death, as 19-year-old Kyle
Prelesnik's body was recovered from Lincoln Creek about eight blocks away from his car which he had been driving in the storm. The cause of the car going into the creek is pending. It is estimated that the latter storm caused flooding
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The first incident occurred in the night on July 15 to July 16. Seven days later on July 22 up to 7.5 inches (190 mm) of rain fell in two hours. This unusually heavy rainfall turned streets and freeways into rivers and impassable ponds. Because of the massive amount of rain in such a short
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simulcast WDJT on a digital subchannel, repaying an arrangement made to simulcast WTMJ on a WDJT subchannel earlier in the year after WTMJ's tower was struck by lightning. During the intense rain several stations experienced
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