Nasty Storms Damage Chicago Area
UPDATE: Photos and video of the storm are plentiful this morning; here are links to additional sites showing flooding, lightning, clouds and damage and the Chicago area:
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Here are some Associated Press* photos:
Elizabeth Schreiber looks at her damaged car under a fallen tree one block from Wrigley Field after violent thunderstorms past through the greater Chicago area, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Chicago Slammed - Aug. 23, 2007 - Fallen tree branches lie scattered around a bus stop in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. A fast-moving storm turned skies from day to night across a wide swath of the Chicago area Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and bringing planes and trains to a halt. (AP Photo/ Jerry Lai)
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ORIGINAL POST (4 PM THURSDAY):
Two nasty lines of thunderstorms have just hit the Chicago area with very high winds. These storms left a trail of high wind reports across northeast Illinois, including one tornado report in Bolingbrook, IL. Over 33,000 lightning strikes were detected (map) between 3:30 and 5:30 PM. ABC reports the high winds from the storms injured 40 people when a warehouse collapsed in West Chicago around 3:30 Central time.
Below are a couple of radar / warning / lightning images; you can download radar loops* here.
ABC went on to say that 186,000 people are without power and give more details of the widespread damage:
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