Grand Rapids: Heat and moisture parts baked from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and other Midwestern countries Wednesday while the storm is accompanied by heavy rain which is wrapped in trees and flood roads.
Thousands of houses and businesses in the west and north of the lower Michigan Peninsula remain without power after damage to the power line.
The gusts of wind reached around 70 mph in several regions, including the DORR area in the south of Grand Rapids, dropping trees, legs and electrical lines.
The wind between 30 and 50 mph (48.2 and 80.4 kph) reportedly crossed a larger area.
Some roads in the city center in North Traverse Michigan City flooded while several roads in the Washed Antrim Regency, according to Traverse City Record-Eagle.
“We have a lot of washing on both sides of Lake Torch we found this morning,” the manager of the Dale Farrier Regional Road Commission office told the Wednesday morning newspaper.
“We still judge damage.
Now during the day we find more spots.” Jackson, Michigan-based consumer energy reported nearly 170,000 customers without strength at 11am, while Great Lakes Energy said it had around 16,000 customers in the dark.
“Nature’s mother gave a strong blow to Michigan,” Vice President consumers for electrical operations, Guy Packard said in the news release.
The Utility crew will “work all the time this week to re-ignite the lights for all those affected by this awesome storm” but urged customers to be patient, noting that additional storms may be Wednesday night, he added.
Indiana Michigan Power said more than 27,000 homes and businesses without electricity at the peak of the storm overnight.
About 17,000 customers lose power after two feet (0.60 meters) water flooded the substation in Southwest Michigan.
Poland utility has been found damaged and damaged transformers in the area of ​​Fort Wayne and South Bend in Northwest Indiana, according to utilities.
Around a dozen storage units outside Muncie, Indiana, warehouses are torn from their foundations by strong winds, press reports (Muncie).
“We heard something strange, it made a lot of noise,” said Patricia Hellis who has an antique mall adjacent to storage facilities.
“Then the lights began to blink and the doors open …
I have to close it.” “The main thing is that no one is hurt …
but many people have lost a lot of property in the warehouse,” he added.
National weather service in Grand Rapids, Michigan, estimates that more storms that achieve “severe intensity” can hit the state Wednesday night until Thursday morning in front of the approaching cooling area, more humid air.
National weather services have issued a hot advisor for the Chicago area, many of Indiana and the Detroit area where the hot index of up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) is expected.