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More severe weather is expected tonight after a line of thunderstorms rolled through south central Indiana today.

Work crews were fixing downed power lines south of Bloomington on Saturday, after an afternoon thunderstorms swept through southern Indiana. Workers were on the scene at Evans Road and Harmony Road.

The fact that the photo traveled almost 130 miles is “unusual but not that unusual,” says John Snow, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Deadly storms that swept the Midwest and South have mostly spared Indiana from major damage. Officials at the NWS office in Indianapolis also said there were no confirmed reports of tornadoes in the state.

Duke Energy reported about 15,000 homes in Indiana were without power early Saturday, including 2,000 in the Bloomington area. Restoration work is expected to be completed later Saturday morning.

At least 100 emergency vehicles descended upon the Amazon warehouse near Edwardsville, Illinois, about 25 miles east of St. Louis, where a wall that was about the length of a football field collapsed, as did the roof above it.