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One dead and 20 injured after severe weather hits the Midwest | |
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Severe weather devastated the Midwest on Sunday, killing one person after a tent collapsed at the Wood Dale Prairie Fest in Chicago. | Severe weather devastated the Midwest on Sunday, killing one person after a tent collapsed at the Wood Dale Prairie Fest in Chicago. |
More than 20 people were injured at the festival, which took place in a Chicago suburb, after storms hit the city around 2:45pm, the Chicago Tribune reported. | More than 20 people were injured at the festival, which took place in a Chicago suburb, after storms hit the city around 2:45pm, the Chicago Tribune reported. |
"The clouds were kinda giving me a sign that it was going to be a bad storm. We we're going to go on the Giant Drop but then we saw lightning. We went on a different ride and then it started hailing," Bella Salgado told the paper. The four-day festival was then cancelled due to the severe weather. | |
Officials investigate after a fatal tent collapse at the Prairie Fest in Wood Dale, Illinois. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/Associated Press) | Officials investigate after a fatal tent collapse at the Prairie Fest in Wood Dale, Illinois. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/Associated Press) |
Festival-goers are evacuated from Lollapalooza Music Festival on Sunday 2 August 2015. (Associated Press) | Festival-goers are evacuated from Lollapalooza Music Festival on Sunday 2 August 2015. (Associated Press) |
In the city, a crowd was evacuated from Lollapalooza Music Festival due to storms approaching the Grant Park in Chicago. Nearly 50,000 attendees left and returned, Lollapalooza management told the Chicago Sun-Times. | |
In Michigan, 70 mphs winds hit Traverse city, cancelling the city's film festival. More than 90,000 people were also left without power during the storm, WZZM-13 reported. | In Michigan, 70 mphs winds hit Traverse city, cancelling the city's film festival. More than 90,000 people were also left without power during the storm, WZZM-13 reported. |
Preparations for the CAR MBS were disrupted by a nasty storm Sunday in Traverse City, Mich. Photo from Roger Hart. pic.twitter.com/h0aH4CBK2J | Preparations for the CAR MBS were disrupted by a nasty storm Sunday in Traverse City, Mich. Photo from Roger Hart. pic.twitter.com/h0aH4CBK2J |
Storm rolling in! #TraverseCity #TraverseBay @GMA pic.twitter.com/SjQHWUxExY | Storm rolling in! #TraverseCity #TraverseBay @GMA pic.twitter.com/SjQHWUxExY |
@CaeruleanSea This is in the area of Traverse City, Michigan. pic.twitter.com/i8RvigrFW6 | @CaeruleanSea This is in the area of Traverse City, Michigan. pic.twitter.com/i8RvigrFW6 |