Monday, June 9, 2008

Deadly Storms

At least six people are dead in the aftermath of intense storms that battered Michigan's Lower Peninsula. There were no reports of funnel cloud touchdowns, but high winds toppled power lines and trees and cut off electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers. Two people delivering newspapers drowned early Sunday after the road beneath their car collapsed and it plunged into a ravine near Saugatuck. Elsewhere in west Michigan, two other people were killed by falling trees and a man drowned while tending to a dam. Authorities also say a Lansing-area woman died when high winds blew a recreational vehicle on top of her.

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