Severe thunderstorms blasted the U.S. East Coast with gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour early on April 15, knocking out power in thousands of homes and putting several states on flood watch, the National Weather Service said.
More than 54,000 homes and businesses were without power in Pennsylvania, according to the tracking site PowerOutage.US, with 139,000 more outages reported across New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and New Jersey.
