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dation. He says another house near Norris had part of its roof blown off.
• Yellow Eagle says a lot of roads were washed out and a dam breached that drained into another dam, which caused flooding in several houses that had to be evacuated.
• He says hail damaged numerous windows.
• The National Weather Service says the storms packed winds gusting to 70 mph.
• There also was a brief tornado touchdown in Haakon County, with no immediate reports of damage.
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abuse.
• Prosecutors are expected to detail Ariel Castro's daily assaults on the women, recounted in diaries that compared the women's experience to that of prisoners of war. With the possibility of the death penalty for a forced miscarriage taken off the table, Castro stands to get life in prison plus 1,000 years on Thursday.
• Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that Castro, who chained his captives and fed them only one meal a day, "admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct" but "remains remorseless for his actions."
• The memorandum says many of the specific charges in Castro's indictment reflect conduct documented by one of the women in her diary.
• "The entries speak of forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of someday escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war ... of being treated like an animal," it says.
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