With just short of 200 Detroit households in city-paid hotel rooms and others staying with loved ones after a broken 54-inch main sent feet of water into streets and basements, of

On Monday, a 54-inch steel transmission line built in the 1930s ruptured in the southeast part of the city, reported the Detroit Free Press, part of USA TODAY Network. Crews had to use inflatable boats to get through the knee-deep water, which in part aided in the rescue of about 200 people.