Wide Spread Damage - 3 Deaths - in Wake of Storm

A view of Walnut Street in Montclair.
Many streets are closed due to fallen trees and downed wires.
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In the Caldwells, Jefferson Elementary School and Grover Cleveland Middle School have a delayed opening.

In Montclair, numerous streets are closed off including the upper part of Walnut Street near Valley Rd; Rosewell Terrace, Champlain Terrace, High Street between Orange Road and Cedar Avenue and Cleveland Road.

The wild storm that brought high winds, hail, heavy rain and lightening also resulted in downed wires, heavy fallen trees and 3 deaths.

The entire tri-state area was under attack from the powerful storm leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power.

In Fairfield, Connecticut, a tree fell on a car and killed one person.In Newburg, New York, tragedy struck as an 11-year old girl sitting in her SUV with her mother was killed by a falling tree. In Danbury Connecticut, a man died when a tree fell on his truck, and a teen also was seriously hurt while sheltering in a dugout on a baseball field.

For now, avoid downed wires which may be live and dangerous.

In the Caldwells, Jefferson Elementary School and Grover Cleveland Middle School have a delayed opening.

In Montclair, numerous streets are closed off including the upper part of Walnut Street near Valley Rd; Rosewell Terrace, Champlain Terrace, High Street between Orange Road and Cedar Avenue and Cleveland Road.