Heavy storms featuring as much as 10 inches of rain and several tornadoes hit the Midwest on Saturday causing serious damage but no deaths.   

The massive floods threatened dams and inundated motorways in Indiana. The local Coast Guard rescued residents of swamped homes. More than 100 patients and doctors of an Indianapolis hospital were forced to leave the building due to the rising waters.

In the Chicago-area, residents ran for their lives as twisters touched down and spawn over the area leaving as much as 25,000 customers in the southern suburbs of the Windy City without electric power late Saturday according to ComEd spokeswoman Judy Rader.

Several tornadoes also hit the state of Wisconsin where some victims were reported. After the tempest left the area, Gov. Mitch Daniels said during a news conference that the Hoosiers are secure. He also declared the state of emergency in 17 counties.

Probably the hardest hit was the town of Paragon, which is currently 90% under water, State Homeland Security Director Joe Wainscott said.

The water level also reached the first floor of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, but the management of the facility decided this was no reason for an evacuation, county Commissioner Tom Kite said.

The town of Nineveh, about 30 miles south of Indianapolis, is under great threat if the dams in the Prince's Lakes area fail.

Indiana State Police evacuated the residents living in the Lake Lemon area about 10 miles northeast of Bloomington due to the fact that the dams near Gold Point were close to collapse.