Weekend Storms Continue To Pummel Midwest
Fierce weekend storms continued over the weekend as the Midwest saw a line of tornadoes rip through neighborhoods. Storms caused the roof cave in of a movie theater in Illinois and ripped siding from a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing it to shutdown. Meanwhile, the worst destruction was forced upon a 100-yard-wide, 7-mile-long strip southeast of Toledo.
Storms left roads littered with wrecked vehicles, and family possessions. A neighborhood high school was destroyed just a day before graduation, and most heartbreaking of all 7 people have been named dead.
Among the victims was the father of the valedictorian of the demolished high school.
“It’s a war zone,” Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer said. Their neighborhood is in shambles with fifty homes destroyed and another fifty severely damaged, as well as six commercial buildings. About 14,000 people were without power due to the damage to the nuclear plant, and there is no estimate to when the plant will go back into operation.
Eleven people with minor injuries were taken to hospitals from Dundee, Michigan, where a tornado touched down with winds of about 130 mph. More than a dozen people were injured in Dwight Illinois, where about 40 mobile homes and 10 other homes were destroyed.
Today you would not even know there had been storms, as the sky is now clear and the wind is now quiet in the Midwest, but looking at the scars that the storms left behind, it is clear that the people of this town will not soon forget Graduation weekend 2010.
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