Storms blow through Midwest
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Violent thunderstorms rolled through the Midwest Wednesday night, spawning tornadoes and flash floods in Missouri and razing beer tents in Oklahoma.
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The violent storms that claimed lives in the Midwest and Southeast are part of an annual pummeling that sees an average of 1,000 tornadoes hit the United States. So far this year, there have been more than 150 twister reports.
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A winter storm roared into the midwestern and northeastern United States on Wednesday, dumping a mixture of snow, ice, sleet and rain that caused transportation havoc and forced many schools to close.
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A major winter storm moved across the Midwest and was expected to arrive in the N.Y. area late this afternoon.
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Powerful storms raced across the upper Midwest, toppling trees and power lines and flooding streets, basements and a hospital lobby, where workers pumped out several inches of standing water.
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Severe thunderstorms spawned tornadoes, large hail and lightening in parts of Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois on Friday, killing a boater trying to get to shore.
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Storms slammed rain-soaked Ohio on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains.
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Winter storms that clobbered the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday have bottled up local package deliveries. &quot;It couldn&#39;t happen at a worse time,&quot; said Jeff Costello, the US Postal Service&#39;s
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Thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind.
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Storms continue to drench the US Midwest, which is already enduring record floods.
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Storms battered the western United  States on Saturday with strong winds, heavy rains and a blanket  of snow that caused widespread power outages, a levee break in  Nevada and two deaths in California.
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A freak cluster of tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking railroad cars off their tracks and even temporarily halting justice in one courthouse
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The second big winter storm to hit the central United States in less than a week slammed parts of Nebraska and Iowa with near-blizzard conditions on Thursday and spun off tornadoes that killed a child in Missouri.
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More than 1,000 flights are cancelled in the US Midwest and North-east because of severe snowstorms.
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A fierce snowstorm pummeled the Midwest on one of the busiest travel days of the year yesterday, snarling roads and causing long delays at airports as millions
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A severe winter storm dumped snow and  freezing rain across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic United States  on Sunday, stranding air travelers from Boston to Chicago and  causing several traffic deaths.
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Ferocious thunderstorms, heat and humidity added to the Midwest's flooding misery Friday as thousands of people returned to damaged homes, many without electricity to run fans or pumps.