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
Residents of Guam and surrounding U.S. island territories in the western Pacific were urged to seek shelter as Super Typhoon Bavi was expected to make landfall early Monday, threatening an area still recovering from another destructive storm earlier this year. Bavi, a huge cyclone approaching the Mariana Islands east of the Philippines, is forecast to
HONOLULU– Residents of U.S. territories in the western Pacific were bracing Friday for a possible super typhoon, just months after the region was hit by Earth’s strongest tropical cyclone this year. Power has yet to be fully restored to the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands after super typhoon, Sinlaku, brought fierce winds and
LAKE GENEVA, Wisconsin.- Three people died and seven others were rescued Friday after a boat capsized on Lake Geneva as a strong storm passed through southern Wisconsin, an official said. Many injuries were reported in Walworth County, Wisconsin, after the storm downed trees, downed power lines and damaged buildings, said Tom Hausner, undersheriff of the
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power Saturday after high winds raked eastward from the Great Lakes region, leaving trees down and substantial property damage in their wake. Nearly 600,000 customers were still affected at midday in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide. A 66