Storms Smack Wheeling, Flooding Neighborhoods And Closing Streets
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Wednesday afternoon’s sudden storm burst in the Wheeling area left thousands without power and multiple roads closed due to high water or downed trees.
Park View Lane just outside of Elm Grove was unpassable Wednesday afternoon, as water rolling down from the hills collected just off the intersection of Park View and National Road. Drivers trying to reach that intersection were turned away and diverted to other pathways out of the Springdale neighborhood.
Inside Elm Grove, a large tree fell across Kruger St. near the Osiris Shrine Temple, shutting that road down. Several people were trying to cut through the tree with chainsaws to help remove it from the road.
More than 5,000 people around Ohio County were without power Wednesday afternoon, according to Appalachian Power’s outage map. Most of those outages were found from Elm Grove to Triadelphia to Mozart to Edgwood. The map did not give an estimated restoration time as of 4:10 p.m. Wednesday.
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