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Strong Weather Moved Through Central Indiana

#1 Postby michaelwmoss » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:31 am

I was able to get several posts on my AudioBlogger from the event. You can check it out at:

http://indiegospelradio.blogspot.com/

Let me know what you think. Pretty exciting evening!!
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#2 Postby tropicana » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:17 am

Storm snuffs lights across INDIANA
More than 90,000 lose electricity

July 22, 2004


A thunderstorm slowly scoured its way south across Indiana on Wednesday night, leaving more than 90,000 Hoosiers without power and scattering damage in its wake from Lake Michigan to Boone County.

The storm's high winds knocked down trees and power lines, briefly blacked out Marion County's emergency dispatch center and brought enough rain to strand at least one car in rising water.

More than 42,0000 Northern Indiana Public Service Co. customers had no power as of 9 p.m., said spokesman Dave Ryan.

Most of the outages were in Crown Point, Hammond, Gary and Valparaiso in northwestern Indiana. Ryan said crews would likely work into today to restore power.

By 11 p.m., Cinergy had reduced the number of customers without electricity from 40,000 to 28,000. Most of the outages were in the utility's Lafayette district. Most of those outages came in Lafayette. In the area of Plainfield and Danville, 4,600 customers lost electricity, a number reduced to 1,000 after the storm had passed through.

In northern Indiana, about 11,000 American Electric Power customers were in the dark as of 11 p.m., about 8,000 of those in Elkhart County. The rest were in South Bend and eastern LaPorte County, said AEP spokesman David Mayne.

Winds were clocked at up to 60 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. Up to two inches of rain also fell in some areas, flooding roads.

The storm dumped so much rain that traffic on I-465 slowed to a crawl. One vehicle was trapped in high water at the low-lying intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Valley Avenue on the Near Eastside.

Police and fire divers scrambled to a report of a car that had entered Fall Creek at Keystone Avenue, only to find the report was false.

Near the height of the storm Downtown at 9:35 p.m., a lightning strike disrupted communications at the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Agency dispatch center at 47 S. State St.

A half hour later, more lightning briefly left the center without power, but radio traffic continued.

The storm started gathering strength long before it reached the Indianapolis area. At 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, the Coast Guard measured a hurricane-speed gust of 75 mph at the Michigan City lighthouse.

At 7:30 p.m., the winds were still howling at 60 mph as they knocked down trees and power lines in Tippecanoe County.

Large trees were reported down in the Logansport area, blocking roads and hitting a mobile home.

When the storm marched through Hendricks County at 9:15 p.m., it snapped off the tops of trees measuring six inches in diameter.

Summer storms cause outages and airport delays in ILLINOIS ALSO

CHICAGO July 22 — Summer storms that swept through central and northern Illinois Wednesday evening left thousands of people without power and caused delays at Chicago's two airports.
Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Annette Martinez said Midway Airport had evening delays of 1½ hours for both departures and arrivals, while O'Hare International Airport, which was farther away from the central band of storms, had delays of up to an hour for arrivals.

ComEd reported 112,000 customers without power Wednesday night, with most of the areas affected south and southwest of downtown Chicago and in the southwestern suburbs. The communities of Bolingbrook and Crestwood were particularly hard hit, said spokeswoman Margaret Amato.

Amato said most of the outages were caused by lightning strikes or by heavy winds.

In other parts of the state, Illinois Power Co. spokeswoman Celeste Huttes said that utility experienced only a few hundred outages, mostly in the Danville area. She said minor damage reported earlier Wednesday near Galesburg had already been repaired.
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#3 Postby michaelwmoss » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:17 am

Thanks for the info!! That was one whale of a storm!!
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#4 Postby michaelwmoss » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:28 am

Did anyone have a chance to listen to the sound files on the blog page? Did they sound ok?
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#5 Postby michaelwmoss » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:58 am

I just now looked back on this topic. I guess they did sound ok :)

We might have some new weather coming up later on this week. Cool and Foggy around here this morning
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