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OUT INVESTIGATING JUST WHAT
HAPPENED.
>>> SEVERE STORMS ALSO HITTING
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, WHERE YOU
CAN SEE THE LIGHTNING --
>> THIS PICTURE IS WILD.
>> -- HITTING THE TOP OF THE
BUILDING, RIGHT?
IF YOU LOOK CLOSE ENOUGH, IT
WILL DO IT AGAIN.
THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE.
THE RESULTS OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS.
THERE ARE REPORTS OF TREES DOWN
AND DAMAGE TO SOME HOMES.
SOME 9,000 CUSTOMERS WERE
WITHOUT POWER IN THE NASHVILLE
AREA AT THE HEIGHT OF THIS
STORM.
>>> AND LIGHTNING STRIKE SAID TO
BE THE CAUSE OF THIS FIRE THAT
SERIOUSLY DAMAGED A DAYCARE
CENTER IN MISSISSIPPI.
ONE OF THE OWNERS WAS DRIVING IN
TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH HIS SON
WHEN HE SAW IT HAPPEN.
>> HE SAID, "DAD, LOOK!"
AND I LOOKED BACK AND I SAW A
BOLT OF LIGHTNING JUST WENT
STRAIGHT DOWN.
>> NO ONE WAS HERE.
THEY HAD JUST LEFT FIVE MINUTES
BEFORE THE LIGHTNING HIT THE
BUILDING.
SO, LUCKILY, BLESSED, NO ONE WAS
HERE.
>> WOW.
>> AWFUL.
>>> IN MINNESOTA, IT WASN'T
RAIN, BUT SNOW.
OH, MINNESOTA, I'M SO SORRY FOR
THE WINTER YOU'VE HAD.
INTENSE, HEAVY SNOW AT RATES OF
UP TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR LEADING
TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS IN THE
TWIN CITIES AND ELSEWHERE.
>> WE HAVEN'T HAD IT EASY IN THE
NEW YORK AREA AS WELL.
>> NO, EVERYBODY'S JUST BEEN
HAMMERED.
>>> THE ROADS SLIPPERY ALL THE
WAY AROUND HERE.
LOOK, THIS IS IOWA, WHERE THIS
BUS WAS FORCED OFF THE ROAD WEST
OF DES MOINES.
>>> AND THIS GARAGE IN DETROIT
TAKEN DOWN BY ALL THE WEIGHT OF