Millions across the
mid-Atlantic region sweltered Saturday in the aftermath of violent
storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with high winds and downed trees,
killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million without power during a
heat wave.
Power officials said the outages
wouldn't be repaired for several days to a week, likening the damage to a
serious hurricane. Emergencies were declared in Maryland, West
Virginia, Ohio, the District of Columbia and Virginia, where Gov. Bob
McDonnell said the state had its largest non-hurricane outage in
history, as more storms threatened. "This is a very dangerous
situation," the governor said.
In West
Virginia, 232 Amtrak passengers were stranded Friday night on a train
that was blocked on both sides by trees that fell on the tracks,
spending about 20 hours at a rural station before buses picked them up.
And in Illinois, storm damage forced the transfer of dozens of
maximum-security, mentally ill prisoners from one prison to another.
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