A 9-year-old boy was electrocuted by fallen power lines outside of Nashville during a Halloween night of severe storms across the country. Texas cities also felt nature's brute force with flash flooding that waterlogged streets and swamped more than 600 homes.
By Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor
A punishing storm system pushed into the Northeast on Friday and threatened major cities with power outages, downed trees and a nasty morning commute, a day after it forced four states to postpone trick-or-treating.
Forecasters warned of possible severe weather in Boston, New York and Washington, including wind as strong as 50 mph.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the system lashed Texas, triggered tornado warnings in Kansas and damaged buildings in Arkansas. Three people were killed, including a 9-year-old boy struck by a downed power line while he was riding his bike in Tennessee.
In Kansas, a school bus ran off a bridge into a flooded creek. The students on board were safely rescued, but bus was still in the water Friday morning. In Austin, Texas, flash floods swamped more than 600 homes and swept away cars, and people had to be rescued by boat and helicopter.
Scores of cities in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee put off their Halloween celebrations for a day.
The wind threat on Friday reached from the Appalachian Mountains into New England. The weather is expected to calm down Friday afternoon, clearing the way for a more placid weekend, but not before an ugly morning drive for the big cities.
High wind in Chicago was expected to cause rippling delays throughout the country’s air travel network.
“It’s not an outrageously powerful storm, but there will be power outages and trees coming down,” said Michael Palmer, lead meteorology for The Weather Channel.
On Friday morning, thousands of homes were without power in Ohio, and about 100 people were evacuated from an assisted-living facility in Indiana because wind blew away part of the roof.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A punishing storm system pushed into the Northeast on Friday and threatened major cities with power outages, downed trees and a nasty morning commute, a day after it forced four states to postpone trick-or-treating.
Forecasters warned of possible severe weather in Boston, New York and Washington, including wind as strong as 50 mph.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the system lashed Texas, triggered tornado warnings in Kansas and damaged buildings in Arkansas. Three people were killed, including a 9-year-old boy struck by a downed power line while he was riding his bike in Tennessee.
In Kansas, a school bus ran off a bridge into a flooded creek. The students on board were safely rescued, but bus was still in the water Friday morning. In Austin, Texas, flash floods swamped more than 600 homes and swept away cars, and people had to be rescued by boat and helicopter.
Scores of cities in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee put off their Halloween celebrations for a day.
The wind threat on Friday reached from the Appalachian Mountains into New England. The weather is expected to calm down Friday afternoon, clearing the way for a more placid weekend, but not before an ugly morning drive for the big cities.
High wind in Chicago was expected to cause rippling delays throughout the country’s air travel network.
“It’s not an outrageously powerful storm, but there will be power outages and trees coming down,” said Michael Palmer, lead meteorology for The Weather Channel.
On Friday morning, thousands of homes were without power in Ohio, and about 100 people were evacuated from an assisted-living facility in Indiana because wind blew away part of the roof.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Fri Nov 1, 2013 6:15 AM EDT
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