Cleanup continues in Lafayette after Monday night's storms

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Cleanup continues in Lafayette after Monday night's storms
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The storm turned deadly when a tree fell on a home in Lake County.

Heavy rains and strong winds brought down trees and power lines across Indiana, including Tippecanoe County, which was among the hardest hit.Heavy rains and strong winds brought down trees and power lines.

“Probably the worst rain I’ve seen probably, over the past year,” said Randy Bulteman, who was sitting outside under his carport during Monday night’s storm, enjoying the rain and a cigarette.That’s when he ran inside, right before part of a tree landed on his pickup truck outside.Not a power line, though, leaving Bulteman without electricity. Tuesday afternoon, he was still waiting for the power to come back on.

Northwestern Indiana woman killed, tens of thousands without power after strong storms move through overnight “I got to figure out what’s going on with the power, see when they’re going to come out,” said James Heidle, who also was still without power at his house nearby. “We had a lot of strong winds. It damaged a lot of trees and houses,” Heidle said.Morehouse didn’t lose power, but like many others in Lafayette, she spent Tuesday cleaning up after high winds brought down part of a tree in her yard.

“We actually needed firewood, anyways, so we’ll kill two birds with one stone,” Morehouse said, making the best of it, especially people like Bulteman, who’s happy the damage wasn’t worse, but more importantly, that he wasn’t injured.Storms across the Midwest spawn tornadoes, kill 1 and leave 460k without power

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