Chaos in Pennsylvania : Extreme storm Tornado destroy homes, cars Missouri

Two people died during storms in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, authorities said. A Pittsburgh man was electrocuted by live wires around 7 p.m. while another man, a 22-year-old from State College was electrocuted when he was putting out a mulch fire caused by live wires that were knocked down due to severe weather. Meanwhile, several severe weather events hit the Midwest and the Heartland as more than 280 destructive straight-line winds greater than 70 mph were reported from Texas to New York with large hail fell in Texas, and a more than 500 miles long wind event left at least one dead and hundreds of thousands without power from Indiana to Pennsylvania. More than 7,000 people in Central New York are still without power Wednesday morning after high winds and thunderstorms throughout the region Tuesday night. The hardest hit area in the region was Oneida County. At 7 a.m., nearly 5,000 customers were without power in Oneida County, according to the National Grid outage map, as well as 1,631 in Herkimer County; 381 in Madison County; and 249 in Oswego County. Cayuga County has only 1 power outage reported.