More than 425,000 customers were without power in Pennsylvania and another 40,000 were in the dark in Ohio by midday Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that tracks outages. Neighboring states, including Michigan, New York and West Virginia also reported thousands of outages.

Severe storms caused widespread power outages and damage from Texas into the Northeast on Tuesday. In the Pittsburgh area, at least two people died as intense winds and rain brought down trees and power lines.