Weather

PHOENIX — Even by the Valley's temperamental monsoon weather standards, Thursday's storm was one for the ages. With wind gusts of up to 100 mph, more than 1,500 lightning strikes recorded in a single hour and a multimillion-dollar path of destruction stretching from the southeast Valley through central Phoenix, the monsoon storm left hundreds of thousands of area residents going to sleep without power and many more awestruck at the devastation when they awoke Friday morning. Nearly 80,000 Valley homes that lost electricity Thursday night. Hundred-year-old trees were uprooted in Phoenix, roofs were stripped throughout the Valley as block walls toppled and dumpsters were tossed around like tin cans; normally dry roads in Tempe became small lakes and large swaths of the Valley went dark as power poles snapped like toothpicks. The most visible damage came at Arizona State University in Tempe, where an $8.4 million indoor-athletic facility was demolished.

SUPAI - An American Indian village and Grand Canyon tourist spot hit by flooding won't reopen to visitors for at least six months. The Havasupai tribe had hoped to reopen its village, campsites and hiking trails within weeks of the Aug. 16 flood, but damage was more extensive than first thought.