Debris lies in the yards of homes of the Meadows neighborhood after severe storms struck the Indianapolis area Tuesday night, Jan. 29, 2008. Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and fierce winds sliced through the Midwest and took aim at the Northeast Wednesday, leaving behind bitterly cold air and blizzards in the northern Plains that sent temperatures in some areas plummeting 50 degrees in a few hours.
Family member of Kathryn Mason and her daughter Donna Fay Zophs, who died Tuesday when their mobile home north of Poseyville, Ind., was demolished in a wind storm, go through the debris looking for papers, belongings and anything that can be salvaged from the mobile home Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008.
Ron Mason, 49, who lost his mother Kathryn Mason and his sister Donna Fay Zoph Tuesday evening when their mobile home north of Poseyville, Ind., was demolished in a storm. Mason stands in the yard of the home in rural Posey County Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008 as family and friends help with the clean up.
Family member and friends of Kathryn Mason and her daughter Donna Fay Zophs, who died Tuesday when their mobile home north of Poseyville, Ind., was demolished in the wind storm, go through the debris looking for papers, belongings and anything that can be salvaged from the mobile home Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008.
Rev. Don French, left, pastor of Old Union Christian Church, stands in the church parking lot the day after a wind storm did damage to the building north of Poseyville, Ind., Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008. Former church member Kevin Johnson, 38, right, from Sullivan, Ind., drove an hour and half from his home to see if he could help with any clean up at the church were he grew up.
Marilyn Prince, 66, stands in the kitchen of her rural Posey County home just north of Poseyville, Ind., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, were she has lived with her husband Bob for 42 years. She was fixing supper when the storm hit around 5:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, taking the roof off her home.
Vehicles shifted and pummeled by the wind blown debris sit Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, outside a wind damaged apartment building after strong storms moved through the Indianapolis area the previous night.
An apartment building is missing sections of roof Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, after strong storms moved through the Indianapolis area the previous night.
Michael Arnone looks at the damage to his tenant's car after a tree fell on the car during high winds in Clarence, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. The severe weather was part of a storm system that knocked out power to thousands in upstate New York, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
A tractor trailer was blown over by high winds on a ramp on the New York State Thruway in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008.
Workers assess the damage to a derailed railroad car Wednesday morning, Jan. 30, 2008, off the shore of Danbury Township, Ohio, in Sandusky Bay. The car was part of a train traveling in high winds which derailed on a bridge over Sandusky Bay around 4 a.m. Wednesday, sending as many as four freight cars into the water, said Ottawa County Sheriff Robert Bratton.
The Little Colonel Playhouse, in Peewee Valley, Ky., was damaged by a windstorm on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The town's mayor, Bob Rogers, said "It's a historic building and we're going to try to save it." Taking pictures of the damage on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, was former council member Beach Craigmyle.
Dave Lesinski shields his face from the wind while walking to work in downtown Appleton, Wis. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Wisconsinites woke up to a deep freeze Wednesday after temperatures plunged more than 50 degrees over much of the state as a strong cold front slashed through the state Tuesday with strong winds
A pedestrian covers his face as he walks into a freezing wind Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, in Chicago. Chicagoans awoke to bitterly cold conditions Wednesday after a steep overnight weather change transformed spring-like temperatures into cold arctic weather temperatures.