Re: I don't think the weather is going to be forgiving today.
CLEVELAND (AP) ? High winds lashed Ohio early Wednesday, causing widespread power outages and property damage, blowing over a tractor-trailer on an interstate and apparently pushing a freight train off the rails into Sandusky Bay.
Utilities said tens of thousands of customers statewide were without power Wednesday morning because of winds that reached 66 mph in Cleveland and 58 mph in Youngstown. In northern Ohio, a train derailed on a bridge over Sandusky Bay, sending as many as four freight cars into the water, said Ottawa County Sheriff Robert Bratton.
Bratton said the derailment occurred around 4:15 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities were working on the assumption that the cars were blown off the bridge by high winds near the Lake Erie coastline.
In the Cleveland area, the temperature reached a high of 51 Tuesday and dropped to 14 degrees by Wednesday morning.
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