An MLB stadium experienced leaking due to heavy rain, which led to cars being stuck underwater.
Flash flooding occurred across Wisconsin over the weekend.
Milwaukee Brewers rookie second baseman Caleb Durbin attempts to throw a batter out in the team’s home win over the New York Mets on Sunday[/caption]
The New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers played baseball on Sunday, where the latter team won on a walk-off home run in the ninth inning.
It was the Brewers’ eighth straight victory, while the Mets suffered their 11th loss in their last 12 games.
But the day before, after Saturday’s game, storms caused the retractable roof at American Family Field to leak due to the storms.
After the Brewers’ 7-4 win, fans would find it tough to navigate a flooded parking lot.
There was heavy rain and flooding outside the Brewers’ stadium.
A video showed the outside of American Family Field just before 1:00 CTD with “multiple cars stuck inside feet of water,” per WISN 12 News.
While the baseball game wasn’t postponed, the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair was canceled due to the flooding.
The final day of the 11-day event was called off after rain flooded the fairground in West Allis, which is just outside Milwaukee.
USA Triathlon also scrapped its Spring and Paratriathlon National Championships in Milwaukee, where thousands of athletes were expected to take part in the event.
City officials warned residents not to drive or walk in the standing water.
“It remains dangerous,” the city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works said in a statement.
The National Weather Service issued flood watches and warnings for parts of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
Some areas forecasters predicted heavy rain, hail, strong winds, and isolated tornadoes into Monday.
On Saturday, powerful winds caused the death of one person in eastern Nebraska after a tree landed on a woman’s car.
American Family Field also experienced leaks due to the severe storms[/caption]
Fortunately, no one died in the Milwaukee area from the storms.
But some of the Milwaukee area saw as many as 12 inches of rain, per the NWS.
There was river flooding in the city and Waukesha counties.
Close to 47,000 customers of We Energies lost power in southeast Wisconsin.
Flooding through the streets outside the MLB stadium on Sunday morning[/caption]
Cars in a flooded street in Milwaukee[/caption]
