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PHILADELPHIA — Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up widespread damage Sunday caused by a series of short, severe storms that passed through. The storms, called microbursts, lasted into Saturday afternoon, downing trees and power lines, flooding a handful of streets and causing structural damage. A building that collapsed in a