Flooding in southern Indiana led to new evacuations overnight. The White River overflowed levees near the village of Maysville, which is about 15 miles east of Vincennes. About 300 people had to evacuate their homes.

Governor Mitch Daniels has asked federal agriculture officials to declare 44 Indiana counties major disaster areas because of storm damage and flooding this month. The designation would qualify farmers in those counties for emergency loans. During a news conference yesterday, the governor was asked when he’d be able to say the immediate danger from the flooding is over. "You’re not going to hear that out of us for quite some time," Daniels responded. "As long as we have high standing water, we’ve got risks." State officials say they still can't put a dollar estimate on the losses from the flood.

The water has receded in Franklin and Columbus, where rolls of soggy carpet and piles of belongings line the streets as people begin a massive clean-up. Floodwaters climbed as high as six feet inside a Johnson County office building. The water destroyed 435 computerized voting machines, which means voters in Johnson County might have to use paper ballots in November.