Adam Kellogg, of Chesterton, gestures while looking taking a closer look at the damage his car sustained after high winds toppled a tree at the corner of Institute and Michigan in Valparaiso Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media

Valparaiso Public Works employees remove downed trees near the intersection of Locust and Jefferson following an early-morning storm Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media

The shattered trunk of a tree that fell during high winds in Valparaiso early Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media

This tree at Wicker Park in Highland was uprooted Tuesday morning by the storms that struck Northwest Indiana. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Another view of the CarQuest Auto Parts store on U.S. 30 in Merrillville that was damaged by Tuesday’s storms. | Carole Carlson~Sun-Times Media

Tuesday's storms did extensive damage to the roof on the CarQuest Auto Parts building on U.S.30 in Merrillville. | Carole Carlson~Sun-Times Media

Griffith Parks employees Art Maynard (left) and Greg Curtis cut up a felled tree Tuesday near the war memorial in Central Park. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Roy Sweitzer of Highland came to Wicker Memorial Park for exercise and stopped to look at a large tree that was felled after a strong morning storm in Highland, In. Tuesday July 24, 2012. Wicker Park employees were busy clearing numerous downed trees and branches throughout the park and golf course, including this one. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Nick Stassin hauls a big branch as he joins other Griffith Parks Department employees in cleaning up downed trees and branches in Central Park in Griffith, Ind. after a morning storm Tuesday July 24, 2012. One tree fell, missing the military tank displayed but landing partially on the War Memorial just off Broad Street. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Park employees drive around the golf course surveying the damage as a morning storm winds down in Wicker Memorial Park in Highland, Ind. Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Part of the roof of the building that houses CarQuest and Affordable Fireworks hangs down as clean up begins in Merrillville, Ind. after a morning storm Tuesday July 24, 2012. Some of the rest of the roof wrapped around a utility pole and landed on nearby U.S. 30. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Employees Charlie Talley (left) and Eric Ingram watch from the porch of Texas Corral as workers with NIPSCO and BBC Electric work on repairing power lines along U.S. 30 east of Madison Street in Merrillville, Ind. after a morning storm Tuesday July 24, 2012. Power was out in the area, including the Texas Corral, after the storm ripped off the roof of the nearby CarQuest building and damaged power lines. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Employees with BBC Electric and NIPSCO work to restore power after a morning storm ripped the roof off the CarQuest building and damaged utility poles along U.S. 30 west of Broadway in Merrillville, Ind. Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Park employees clean up downed trees and branches in Wicker Memorial Park in Highland, Ind. after a powerful morning storm blew through the area Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

CarQuest employees Jay Bridges (left) and Paul Bailie try to keep a generator going after a morning storm ripped part of the roof off the business and left them without power in Merrillville, Ind. Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Part of the roof from the CarQuest building lies in a heap outside the Merrillville, Ind. business after a morning storm ripped through the area Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

A tree that fell in Central Park missed the military tank on display but partially landed on the War Memorial in Griffith, Ind. after a morning storm Tuesday July 24, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media