CLEVELAND (AP) — A few hundred utility customers are still without power after severe weather spawned what forecasters called a “100-year flood” in Cleveland and led to a number of water rescues.
Flood warnings issued by the National Weather Service remained in place Monday for some rivers, including the Black River in Elyria and the Mahoning River in Leavittsburg.
Drivers were being urged to be alert and avoid travel in areas where flooding had occurred or was expected.
Roughly 400 First Energy customers were still without service Monday morning, although most were expected to be restored by noon.
Cleveland firefighters say a man was rescued from the basement of an apartment building on the city’s East Side. WOIO-TV reports that the man called 911 saying the water was up to his chest. One firefighter had a minor injury and 10 people were displaced.
Cleveland police say emergency medical personnel took an officer and sergeant to a hospital Saturday night for treatment of exposure after they entered frigid water to aid civilians.