The Nation : Storms Drench Midwest
Lightning left at least 70,000 homes in Michigan without power, and winds toppled a plane at Detroit’s airport as thunderstorms raced across the Upper Midwest, quickly drenching several communities with heavy rain. At least five persons suffered minor injuries in Bloomdale, Ohio, when storm winds blew down a large circus tent. Battle Creek, Mich., was swamped by 2.8 inches of rain, and the nearby community of Marshall received nearly two inches in an hour. Parts of northeastern Ohio’s Trumbull and Mahoning counties were deluged with 2 1/2 inches. The rainfall was part of a pattern of showers and thunderstorms scattered across the lower Great Lakes, the upper Ohio and the Tennessee valleys.
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