Story Created:
Jul 10, 2008
Story Updated:
Jul 11, 2008
Parts of Southeastern Wisconsin are recovering today from storm damage, including a family in the already flood-ravaged Town of Summit whose house was struck by lightning.
Firefighters spent the early morning hours fighting a fire caused by the lightning strike. The house is located on Valley Road, just east of Silver Lake.
No one was home at the time. Fire crews explain that most of the damage involved the stairway of the house, and the fire chief says that the entire stairway burned out.
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The storm also produced damage at the Jefferson County Fair, thanks to wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour that blew through the property.
Those gusts blew down tents at the Jefferson County Fair. No one was hurt.
Still, these storms have produced power outages west of Milwaukee.
We Energies reports 1,400 people without power in the region.
Those outages are mainly based in Burlington, Delafield, Kenosha, Menomonee Falls and Waukesha.