Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave 1 Dead and Cause Widespread Power Outages

Severe Storms in the Southeast US Leave 1 Dead and Cause Widespread Power Outages
Debris, including pieces of tin from roofs and wood from awnings lay strewn in the street along Broughton Street on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 after an overnight storm passed the area. Dionne Gleaton/The Times and Democrat via AP
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CANTON, Ga.—A weather system that produced severe thunderstorms late into the night in the Southeast left one man dead in Georgia, caused damage in a South Carolina town and left hundreds of thousands of electricity customers without power for a time.

The 27-year-old man was found dead after a tree fell Tuesday on his moving car on a residential road in the suburban county northwest of Atlanta, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said. No passengers were inside.