2026年8月13日 / 美国东部时间上午11:17 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：艾米丽·梅·查霍尔 新闻编辑
艾米丽·梅·查霍尔是CBSNews.com的记者和新闻编辑，通常报道突发新闻、极端天气和气候议题。她此前曾为《洛杉矶时报》、BuzzFeed和《新闻周刊》等媒体撰稿。
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梅格·奥利弗 通讯员
梅格·奥利弗是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻纽约市通讯员，拥有二十多年报道和主播经验的资深记者。
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洪水连续第二天淹没印第安纳州多个社区，该州部分地区周三遭遇有记录以来单日最高降雨量。
部分地区仍在为即将到来的恶劣天气做准备，气象学家周四警告称，印第安纳波利斯面临最大的风暴威胁，本周剩余时间内强降雨将席卷中西部地区。
据美国国家气象局数据，周四该地区超过3600万人处于洪水预警范围内。该局位于肯塔基州、伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、艾奥瓦州和田纳西州的预报办公室警告称，各州区的降雨可能持续且范围广泛，部分地区可能再迎来4英寸以上的降雨量。
预计的新一轮降雨将带来强风、大冰雹和额外的山洪暴发，给近期已遭受极端天气破坏的社区带来新一轮打击。
这张由俄亥俄州美国电力公司（AEP Ohio）提供的照片显示了2026年8月11日周二俄亥俄州克鲁克斯维尔地区的洪水情况。AEP Ohio 供图/美联社
据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻气象学家尼基·诺兰称，自周一以来，俄亥俄河谷地区已报告277起山洪暴发事件，致命风暴和龙卷风重创了该地区。自周二以来，该地区已发布7次山洪紧急警报，印第安纳州和伊利诺伊州四分之一的民众周四醒来后发现因风暴导致停电。
“雨从未停过”
印第安纳州剑桥城周三遭遇灾难性洪水，许多民众被困，随后被乘船救出。洪水填满城市街道，在受灾最严重的区域水位上涨数英尺，渗入当地住宅的底层，最糟的情况则完全被淹没。部分居民处境更为艰难， deluge 完全淹没了他们的车顶，或从门窗涌入住宅。
剑桥城一名男子在浑浊的棕色洪水围绕他旋转时，紧紧抓住一根灯杆，最终被救出。另一位来自附近印第安纳州纽卡斯尔的克里斯蒂安·科德在住宅被淹后撤离，并在接受《CBS早间新闻》采访时表示，应对灾后状况“非常令人不知所措”。
“很多东西都毁了，”科德回忆道，“雨从未停过——一直下，不停地下。”
纽卡斯尔在一天多的时间里降雨量超过11英寸。如此高的降雨频率极为罕见，任何一年中发生的概率仅为千分之一，即0.1%。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的梅格·奥利弗表示，她周三原本计划3小时完成的横跨印第安纳州的5小时车程中，遇到了多处被冲毁的道路和绕行路线。就连该地区主要的70号州际公路也因一段路面在暴雨重压下变形而部分关闭。
奥利弗称，剑桥城的街道周四仍被水淹没，或是覆盖着一层厚厚的淤泥。
破坏并不局限于印第安纳州：周三的山洪暴发最南波及田纳西州诺克斯维尔，当地消防车封锁了被水淹没的街道。此前一天，俄亥俄州部分地区遭遇首轮恶劣天气袭击，该州州长迈克·德怀恩称这场风暴造成的破坏“史无前例”。
2026年8月12日周三，俄亥俄州罗斯维尔部分地区仍被残留洪水覆盖。美联社照片/吉恩·J·普斯卡
洪水风险仍在持续
预报员警告称，对于部分中西部民众而言，最糟糕的情况可能还未到来，周四此前受本周洪水影响的各州河流水位持续上涨。水位上升可能打破部分地区的纪录，潜在达到一个多世纪以来未见的高度。
除印第安纳波利斯外，即将到来的风暴还可能影响多个大都市中心，包括得梅因、路易斯维尔和纳什维尔，这些地区的大部分洪水预警和监视警报预计要到周五才会解除。
肯塔基州杰克逊市的气象局办公室周四在针对该州大片区域发布的警报中表示：“过量径流可能导致小溪、河流以及其他低洼易涝地区发生洪水。”
尽管预报员称伊利诺伊州可能避开最强、最具破坏性的风暴，但据芝加哥CBS新闻报道，芝加哥地区的洪水监视警报将于周四晚间生效，持续至周五早晨。
尼基·诺兰对本文亦有贡献。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/road-buckles-and-homes-flood-in-midwest-after-severe-flooding/
Floodwaters submerge Midwest neighborhoods still bracing for more severe storms
August 13, 2026 / 11:17 AM EDT / CBS News
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Flooding submerged Indiana neighborhoods in water for the second day in a row, as parts of the state saw Wednesday the highest daily rainfall totals ever recorded in their areas.
Some braced for more severe weather still ahead, as meteorologists warned Thursday that Indianapolis faced the greatest threats of storms slated to bring heavy rain to the Midwest throughout the rest of the week.
Upwards of 36 million people were under flood alerts Thursday across the region, according to the National Weather Service. Its forecast offices in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Tennessee warned that rainfall across each state could be persistent and widespread, potentially drenching parts of each state with another 4 inches or more.
The expected round of rainfall could bring strong winds, large hail, and additional flash flooding to communities recovering from extreme weather that has already wreaked havoc in recent days.
This photo provided by AEP Ohio shows flooding in the Crooksville, Ohio, area on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. AEP Ohio via AP
Since Monday, 277 flash flooding incidents have been reported across the Ohio Valley, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan, as deadly storms and tornadoes slammed the region. Since Tuesday, leaders in the region have declared seven different flash flood emergencies, and a quarter of a million people in Indiana and Illinois woke Thursday to power outages caused by the storms.
“The rain never stopped”
Many people had to be rescued by boat in Cambridge City, Indiana, after catastrophic floods on Wednesday left them stranded. Water filled city streets, rising several feet in the hardest-hit places and seeping into, at best, the ground floors of local homes. Some residents faced harsher conditions, with the deluge completely covering the roofs of their cars or crashing into their homes through doors and windows.
One man desperately clung to a light pole in Cambridge City as muddy, brown water swirled around him, before he was eventually rescued. Another, Christian Corder, of nearby New Castle, Indiana, evacuated his home after it flooded and told “CBS Mornings” that dealing with the aftermath has been “very overwhelming.”
“A lot of stuff is ruined,” Corder said, recalling how “the rain never stopped — it just kept coming and coming.”
New Castle received more than 11 inches of rain in just over a day. Such a high rainfall rate is extremely rare, with only a 1 in 1,000, or 0.1%, chance of it happening in any given year.
CBS News’ Meg Oliver said she encountered several washed-out roads and detours along a five-hour drive across Indiana on Wednesday that was supposed to take three. Even the region’s major interstate highway, I-70, was partly shut down after a section of it buckled under the weight of pounding rain.
Cambridge City streets remained submerged in water Thursday or were otherwise caked in mud, said Oliver.
And the destruction hasn’t been limited to Indiana: Wednesday’s flash flooding swept as far south as Knoxville, Tennessee, where fire trucks blocked off waterlogged streets. It came on the heels of an initial bout of severe weather that blasted parts of Ohio a day earlier. That storm left a trail of damage described as “historic” by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Remaining floodwater covers a portion of Roseville, Ohio, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar
Flooding risks still ahead
Forecasters warned the worst may not yet be over for some Midwesterners, as rivers continued to swell Thursday in states previously struck by this week’s floods. Rising water levels could challenge records in some areas, potentially reaching levels not seen in more than a century.
In addition to Indianapolis, the oncoming storms could impact multiple metropolitan centers, including Des Moines, Louisville and Nashville, where most flood warnings and watches weren’t scheduled to lift before Friday.
“Excessive runoff may result in flooding of creeks, streams, and other low lying and flood prone locations,” said the weather service office in Jackson, Kentucky, on Thursday, in an alert issued for a vast portion of the state.
Although forecasters have said Illinois would likely be spared from the strongest and most destructive storms, a flood watch for the Chicago area was set to take effect Thursday evening and last until Friday morning, CBS Chicago reported.
Nikki Nolan contributed to this report.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/road-buckles-and-homes-flood-in-midwest-after-severe-flooding/