Residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania were cleaning up Wednesday after severe thunderstorms Tuesday evening left thousands without power and caused three deaths.

A powerful storm downed trees and power lines, leaving more than a half million customers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and neighboring states in the dark on Wednesday morning, with local officials

A powerful line of severe thunderstorms intensified into a destructive derecho Tuesday evening, unleashing widespread wind damage across portions of the Ohio Valley and the interior Northeast. AccuWeather meteorologists confirmed the classification of this long-lived storm complex,