Officials say at least four tornadoes touched down in Michigan as part of severe storms powered by strong winds that killed five people, while downing trees, tearing roofs off buildings and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power.
Sean Johnson walks with his girlfriend Angela Taylor to check out thier Frenchtown Villas Monroe home in Newport, Mich., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, after a heavy band of storms hit the region on Thursday.
The storms featured lightning displays erupting across the night sky and dumped multiple inches of rain on communities across the lower portion of the state. In Lansing, the state capital, an 84-year-old woman died Thursday night after a tree fell on a home. Firefighters extricated the woman from the home, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital, Lansing Police Department spokeswoman Jordan Gulkis said.
“I can’t get out of my driveway. I can’t go anywhere,” Berry said Friday morning. “We’re out of power, and it’s very frustrating.” Canton Township, a community of some 100,000 people, was hit earlier this week by flooding in its downtown business district.
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