Pennsylvania
Severe Storms Turn Deadly In Pennsylvania | Weather.com
Severe storms that stretched from Texas to New York on Tuesday have left at least two people dead in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Public Safety announced that a man was electrocuted by live wires in the South Side Slopes area of the city, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. In State College, police said a 22-year-old man was electrocuted while trying to put out a mulch fire started by downed power lines.
The storms caused widespread damage across the Pittsburgh area, with the city’s 911 system experiencing a temporary outage. Allegheny County reported more than 5,000 calls per hour to its regional 911 centers as the storms brought down trees and power lines.
More than 450,000 customers were still without power across Pennsylvania early Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us. Multiple school districts have delayed opening or will stay closed on Wednesday. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said cleanup and restoration efforts were underway, and he urged residents to stay off the roads unless travel was essential.
In the Pittsburgh suburb of Brackenbridge, a downed tree caused a power line to catch fire right next to homes. Kenneth Edward Kissel recorded the video from inside his home and shared it on X.
Pittsburgh Internatinal Airport reported a wind gust of 71.3 mph Tuesday evening and according to the National Weather Service that was the third strongest gust ever recorded at the airport. There were more than 300 reports of severe weather from North Texas up to New York on Tuesday, including likely tornadoes, wind gusts surging past 100 mph, hail and heavy rain that caused flash flooding.
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