More than 200 homes in mentor without power after heavy winds and rain toppled trees and ripped up our allies to. It happen on mentor avenue near garfield wrote across the street from the James Garfield Historic Site as Roosevelt Leftwich is there. Tuesday termini here this is the tree in front of the faith avenue. This was a large tree. It missed the Fellowship Hall , are trying to clean it up also to clean up power problems. Lots of power crews upanddown mentor avenue. Right across from the garfield site as they try to restore power to people who have high heat humidity and start out rainfall then became heavier than lightning and thunder and then the power went out. We thought that the house was on fire, there was a huge explosion and it was all redo i a room and we could see that th tree was completely covering mentor avenue with sparks flying. Large branches from a tree a power lines from the long mento avenue , transformer blew as he lines were ripped from the top of the polls an
Port clinton to sandusky seeing heavy rain. This will continue. Some of you seeing partly sunny skies. It is hot and humid but tonight storms will fizzle out about 9 00 heavy rains a big threat. I will let you know when the system in total pushes out of town. Mark all right, beth. Thank you. The storm last night did a number in mentor by the malls, power lines down and trees down and mentor avenue one lane in we are told it will stay that way until midnight now. Theres no power at South High School in willoughby. A transformer caught fire possibly due to a lightning strike. The School Canceled a scheduling event for fresh means. No make update available. Freshmen will use the school tomorrow. Romona they are cleaning up in cleveland heights. Denise zarrella is continuing power. Reporter romona, i am standing amongst a lot of branches laying all around me at Lutheran High School east. I want to direct your attention to the big attraction in the distance. Even people coming all day long
Is good until you get to twinsburg which is good. Walton hills is in on this and bainbridge. You are just on the fringe of this. We just had a soaker go through. So i will put this mesopotamia. Yellow, upwards of 2 1 2 inches of rain just hike that. You need the heads up headed out tonight and let you know for the days ahead coming up. Tiffani. Hit by storms last night. Catherine bosley kicks off our Team Coverage live in mentor where the damage was the worst. Catherine . Reporter yeah. Simply put, it is still quite a mess out here. Look at this yard. My gosh, that says everything, right. Across the street even worse and mixed in is a tangled mess of power lines and down the street the utility workers are working very hard and looks like thats theres so much work to do. Reporter it is the kind of damage. So far it is crazy. Reporter it takes utility workers by surprise. Workers whos job it is to respond to storm damage. The usually busy mentor avenue down to one lane each direction thi
Seeing some of the bigger downpours come down all the way into parma. This is moving off to the northeast. Its all part of the system from last night. We have more storms popping out towards the east or towards the west, excuse me. The rainfall totals, thats what weve been most concerned about. Over two inches near medina from last night. But let me just widen out. Just over into pa, . Lastnight they got nearly five inches of rain. So as the storm systems continue to roll through our area, we have to stay up o whats coming and to alert you and let you know. You can always download our weather app. Thats always a great way to get the push alert. Take a look. We have storm damage and wind damage. Trees down from last night. Mainly on the east side. Cleveland heights got hit the hardest. So did mentor. Well be tracking through that this evening eyeing to see what storms we get tonight. Lot of people. Downed trees and wires. Mark Denise Zarrella is joining us out there with how some are co