Heat wave and severe storms disrupt July 4th, leave nearly 1M without power

Three children under age 13 died when their boat capsized during a severe storm on Geneva Lake, Wisconsin; at least one heat-related emergency hospitalization occurred at D.C. celebrations.

On the weekend Americans gather to celebrate their founding, nature offered a different kind of reckoning. Record heat baked the Northeast while violent storms tore through the Midwest, stripping nearly a million homes of power and forcing cities to silence their fireworks and fold their parade routes. In Washington, the nation's largest Independence Day celebration was delayed by the very skies it hoped to illuminate. And on a lake in Wisconsin, a sudden storm capsized a boat carrying children, three of whom did not survive — a reminder that the natural world observes no holidays and grants n

Heat wave and severe storms disrupt July 4th, leave nearly 1M without power

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