The storms expected for the Northeast could produce frequent lightning and flooding downpours. Storms were forecast from the central Appalachians into New England, and major cities along the major I-95 artery from Washington to New York City could experience severe weather, said. Softball-sized hail hit Georgia and high winds downed trees in upstate New York.Īnother round of thunderstorms was expected yesterday afternoon just as travellers hit the roads for the Memorial holiday weekend. Some residents of the capital city of Montpelier were evacuated after the Winooski River and its tributaries spilled their banks and flooded multiple roads, they said.Ī circus tent collapsed during a storm in western Pennsylvania, injuring at least three people, a circus employee said yesterday.ĭozens of people were gathered under the red-and-yellow big top in Westmoreland County on Thursday when it was blown down by sudden high winds, according to Marie Lawson, secretary for the Lewis and Clark Circus, based in Easley, South Carolina. Storms from a front stalled over northern New England delivered more than 14cm of rain and hailstones the size of baseballs around the Vermont towns of Duxbury and Barre, meteorologists with the National Weather Service said. Some 200 people were evacuated from their homes in central and northern Vermont after severe thunderstorms and drenching rains overnight caused flooding. Two women were killed when a tree fell on their car, and a 19-year-old died while clearing debris when the storm hit late on Thursday.Īs communities across the middle of the country cleaned up from storms earlier in the week, a wave of nasty weather started hitting the south and east Thursday and yesterday. Thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rains and strong winds in Atlanta caused three deaths from falling trees and left more than 100,000 without electric power, officials said yesterday.

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