
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100193
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BUCKEYE LAKE, OHIO                                LENGTH: Short

RAINS FORCE EVACUATIONS IN OHIO

Heavy rains forced up to 10,000 people from their homes, and National Guard troops hoisted sandbags on an earthen wall at Buckeye Lake to keep the water from spilling over.

Authorities said the evacuees in Licking County were forced to leave their homes temporarily because of the flood threat. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning, citing possible dam failure at the man-made lake.

Flooding also was reported farther south in Perry County. County Disaster Services Coordinator Dorothy Sidwell said residents were evacuated from sections of New Lexington and Crooksville, but the number of people affected was not known.

In Pennsylvania, a fast-moving storm system drenched some of the state's central and eastern counties Saturday, leaving behind pockets of darkness from power outages and barns burned and chimneys damaged by bolts of lightning.

The thunderstorms crossed the state at about 50 mph, said weather service meteorologists in Pittsburgh.

About 10,000 households in Pittsburgh were without power for little over an hour Friday night because of high winds, officials said. In Bethlehem, electrical storms knocked out power to more than 45,000 people on Friday and Saturday.

- Associated Press

by CNB