Kalamazoo, Mich. — The Monday said during a fierce weekend storm in which trees fell in a Michigan van, killing three children, swept the area and contributed to the death of an 84-year-old man in an Amish buggy in Indiana.
Meanwhile, more dangerous weather has unfolded across parts of the southeastern United States.
Rain and extreme winds were frozen on Thursday, not comparable to extreme winds, with 276,000 outages gradually recovering in Michigan, according to Poweroutage.us. Indiana and Wisconsin have cut the suspension to around 80,000 people.
The victims of the fallen tree in Kalamazoo County were a two-year-old girl, her four-year-old brother, and their cousin, an 11-year-old girl. Three other people in the van were injured on Sunday, about 130 miles west of Detroit.
“The family wouldn’t have avoided this,” Sheriff Richard Fuller told reporters, adding that the tree had attacked the passenger area where the children were sitting.
“It was such a huge tree that I came across two lane traffic and came out about 12 feet more from the other side of the vehicle,” the sheriff said.
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The area was receiving warnings from a severe thunderstorm at the time, one of Southern Michigan’s Sundays.
Around the same time, an Amish buggy in Middlebury, Indiana was turned over due to heavy winds, killing Ronnie Yoder, police said.
Michigan’s Northern Peninsula remained chaotic on Monday, with thousands of trees falling due to the frozen rain that rained on Saturday. Police urged people to leave the road. Alpena News said it could not publish a newspaper because it was in power, like in other parts of Alpena County.
The Mackinac Bridge, a five-mile span connecting two Michigan peninsulas, was closed due to the danger of thick ice falling from the bridge tower and cables onto the car.
In Valparaiso, Indiana, investigators believe he was blown away inside a serious crossing on a tractor trailer Sunday afternoon, killing a driver on Pratt Industry property. Jagbir Singh, 34, of Ontario, Canada, was found outside the passenger seat.
A warehouse in Elkhart, Indiana, was destroyed, but no injuries were reported, WSBT-TV said.
Winds in southwestern Ohio knocked down church spires, damaged homes and turned campers over Sunday night, authorities said. No injuries have been reported. At least four tornadoes have been confirmed by the National Weather Service.
Kentucky also saw at least three tornadoes on Sunday. Weather Services has been confirmed on social platform X.
Several Tennessee counties, including Maury and Humphreys, reported storm damage. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis reported damages across the county, including roofs torn from the home. The homeowner was locked inside but was not injured. The National Weather Service was confirmed on Facebook Monday in at least four tornadoes in central Tennessee.
The National Weather Service said it was accompanied by clusters of thunderstorms, which had strong tornadoes and perhaps several tornadoes spread across much of the southeast. In Dothan, Alabama, five students were minor injuries when the storm collapsed part of the school’s gymnasium roof, the news outlet reported.
Flood clocks are issued from Wednesday through Sunday, ranging from northeastern Texas to Arkansas and to the western edge of West Virginia. The Weather Service warned that up to a foot of rain in some areas is “not out of the question.” This is expected to be a high-end event with life-threatening floods.”
