The Nation : Holiday Brings Showers, Lightning, Heat

Storms soaked eastern Texas and Georgia, lightning blacked out the Colorado mountain city of Craig, and temperatures soared in Michigan. Rain showers and occasional thunderstorms reached from western South Carolina and Georgia across eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma. Showers and thunderstorms also developed in the Dakotas, southern Montana, northern Wyoming and northwest Colorado, as well as northwest New Mexico. Thunderstorms produced 2 inches of rain between North Houston and Humble, Tex., and about 1 1/2 inches in western and northwest Harris County, Tex. Other heavy rainfall included 1 1/2 inches at Macon, Ga., and almost one-half inch at McAllen and Longview, Tex. At least three Michigan cities reached high temperature records, with a record-tying 88 degrees in Alpena, and record-breaking 92 in Flint and 90 in Marquette.