"7 dead as tornadoes tear across Midwest; Dozens injured; school hit hours before graduation" by John Seewer and Meghan Barr, Associated Press | June 7, 2010
MILLBURY, Ohio — A tornado unleashed a “war zone’’ of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and later pounded the Northeast.
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Yeah, it skirted around us this time.
Storms collapsed a movie theater roof in Illinois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. But most of the worst was reserved for a 100-yard-wide, 7-mile-long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, splintered wood, and family possessions....
Neighbors Mary Hoefflin (left) and Lauren Densic consoled each other amid the destruction on Main Street in Millbury, Ohio, yesterday, the day after a tornado hit. (Paul Sancya/ Associated Press)
Tornadoes also were reported in Illinois. More than a dozen people were injured in Dwight, Ill., where about 40 mobile homes and 10 other homes were destroyed, said Patti Thompson, Illinois Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman....
I feel lucky here, and dread the coming storm season.
Two tornadoes were reported in Indiana, but no one was injured. In eastern Iowa, buildings were damaged and one person was hurt when a tornado touched down in Maquoketa.
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"Stormy weekend leaves a mess of inconvenience; Outages prevalent amid downed trees" by Christopher J. Girard and Emma Stickgold, Globe Correspondents | June 7, 2010
Powerful storms raced through Massachusetts over the weekend leaving a trail of power outages, downed trees, and smashed roofs and cars in their wake.
Yesterday throughout the Bay State, from Brookline, where 30 trees were uprooted and three cars were smashed by falling limbs, to the Western Massachusetts town of Southwick, where a tree crashed through a house, the storms were brief but packed strong punches, according to the National Weather Service in Taunton....
Just a bit south of here.
