Chicago Damage, MI Lightning Photos
Blog reader Dave pointed out that I was remiss in not mentioning the storm damage and power outages in Chicago during Monday's storms. Over 360,000 people lost power -- the largest outage in three years -- and 31,000 were still out on Wednesday night. I saw a report on The Weather Channel that over 4,000 trees were downed by the storms. A school's gym roof was blown off, trapping people in a van beneath it, and many schools and businesses were closed through mid-week. That school damage, and other photos taken by the local NWS [JessePedia] office are shown below:
The NWS said in a damage survey:
A little further east these lightning photos were taken by Photo Gallery user Robert in Six Lakes, Michigan that night:
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AccuWeather Meteorologist and Social Media Manager Jesse Ferrell covers extreme weather and the intersection of meteorology and social media.
