A rare hurricane-like, 100 mph storm left more than a million people without power on Monday as devastation swept across much of the Midwest – hitting Chicago as it recovered from a night of chaos and widespread looting. The derecho – which has the power of a hurricane but hangs …
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Jennifer Pickering told CNN the storm that flat cornfields sounded like a train and felt like it took the breath out of her body. Boards from other buildings were blown up in her brother’s home, where she was staying, she said. Broken windows and howling rain pushed the house so …
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The storms in some cases produced winds of more than 100 mph as they moved through Iowa and Illinois. “Numerous fires of power lines went down and continued to ignite,” the Chicago Fire Department stated tweeted Monday afternoon. “Much of northern Illinois has bushes of damage with fallen trees, rubble …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is an ‘ocean world’ with a large reservoir of salt water beneath its frigid surface, scientists said in findings that increase interest in this dwarf planet as a possible outpost for life. Occator Crater and …
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – A rare storm that grabbed 100 mph winds and struck like a domestic hurricane Monday across the Midwest, blowing over trees, overturning cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power when it went through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan. The …
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