GLENVILLE,
Minnesota (CNN) -- Police cordoned off a southern Minnesota town
Wednesday after a possible tornado knocked out power and damaged
homes.
Severe weather
ripped through the region Tuesday, leaving damaged homes, downed
power lines and a propane gas leak behind in Glenville, about
100 miles south of Minneapolis.
The whole
town of about 1,200 residents was without power early Wednesday,
said Assistant Chief Dwaine Winkels of the nearby Albert Lea Police
Department.
No one was
injured in the storm, but Winkels said "there was substantial
damage in the path of the tornado." Authorities were not
letting anyone into Glenville, he said.
"We've
brought in generators to keep the (water) pumping station going,"
Winkels said.
He said a
leaking propane tank was quickly repaired, but residents who were
forced out of their homes by that leak or by heavy damage were
being helped by the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Forecasters
predicted more strong thunderstorms throughout the Midwest on
Wednesday, with heavy weather stretching from the western Great
Lakes and the Dakotas and south as far as Texas.
|
