Thunderstorms packing high winds pummeled Ross and West View Wednesday evening, putting an exclamation point on a day of wet and wild weather in the Pittsburgh region.
The North Hills area was spared the worst of the flooding that swamped areas to the south earlier in the day, but it was a different story Wednesday evening.
Within minutes of the storms moving through around 6 p.m., hundreds of residents were left without electricity. Several busy intersections, including the three-way junction of Sewickley-Oakmont Road, Perry Highway, and Three Degree Road were without working traffic signals.
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At the Northway Mall, a huge white tent outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods was blown into a pair of cars.
A powerful gust of wind toppled a large sign in the parking lot of Cort Furniture on McKnight Road onto an SUV, smashing several of the vehicle’s windows. No one was hurt.
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The winds also knocked trees into power lines at more than a half dozen locations in Ross, West View, and McCandless.
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