Severe weather over days has caused havoc and destruction across the U.S. That includes torrential rains and flooding in the Upper Midwest and powerful storms in the Northeast that left a least two people dead from falling trees. The deadly storms that raked parts of the Northeast late Wednesday into early Thursday spun off tornadoes and initially left some 250,000 customers in the region without power. The storms in the Northeast came on the heels of widespread flooding in parts of the Midwest, including Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota. In recent days, much of the country also was hit with a scorching heat wave.
