Torrential rains this weekend flooded roadways and basements round Chicago, with some neighborhoods seeing as much as 5 inches of rain, NBC News reported. Water reached as much as automotive bumpers across the metropolis’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, and a part of the Eisenhower Expressway needed to shut down.

Several folks have been rescued from their vehicles that had gotten caught in floodwaters, and a few households reported round 2 to three toes of water in basements throughout a number of neighborhoods, Block Club Chicago reported. The flooding additionally induced water pipes to burst, making a geyser onto the streets.

“Multiple viaducts across the north side of #Chicago have had severe flooding causing stranded vehicles,” the National Weather Service tweeted yesterday, asking that folks not drive on flooded roads. Several areas all through town have been under flood and flash flood warnings all through the weekend. The rain additionally disrupted sporting occasions: The Chicago Bears performed in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers on a semi-flooded Soldier Field, because the water turned the brand new turf right into a slip and slide.

Cities and villages around the globe are combating the right way to deal with the elevated frequency of heavy rainfall occasions. And because the local weather warms, we’re going to see extra flooding and heavy rain that almost all housing and infrastructure aren’t constructed to resist. This July, rainfall shut down elements of the New York City subway system and flooded highways. And in August, a minimum of 11 folks in Seoul, South Korea died after record-breaking floods turned below-ground residences into dying traps, a tragedy foreshadowed in the Oscar-winning 2019 film Parasite.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a “monsoon on steroids” has induced mass catastrophe within the nation, which is accustomed to annual floods however to not this excessive diploma.