Thunderstorms do Damage in Area

Yesterday’s powerful thunderstorms blew down trees and power lines and caused major power outages around the Q101 area. And lightning from one on of the storms might have started a house fire in Warsaw. At one point, 52-thousand electric customers of NIPSCO lost power. The NIPSCO outage also affected about 42-hundred Kosciusko R-E-M-C customers. The National Weather Service says some of the storms had winds of up to 70 miles per hour. One of them blew down one of the spires from the top of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame.