Little girl nearly blown away by high winds

OHIO — A little girl was blown off her feet and nearly away as she opened a door at her home in Ohio.

Video posted on Brittany Gardner's Facebook page shows her daughter getting out of their car and opening the door to their home.

As soon as the girl opens the door, a wind gust blows the door open, swinging her around as she holds on.

"All I hear is 'mommm!' So I look back and she's pinned between the house and the glass door," Gardner wrote.

Gardner said the girl is OK and laughing about it.

Parts of the country have been hit by strong wind, causing damage and even some deaths.

Wind gusts topping 60 mph in some areas whipped through several Great Lakes states and fanned a blaze that killed five people and injured four others in a Detroit apartment building.

The strong winds Wednesday afternoon also pushed a commuter jet carrying members of the University of Michigan basketball team off a runway during takeoff southwest of Detroit.

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A semitrailer rolled over on a bridge in Ohio, commuter trains were stopped in East Chicago, Indiana, after high-voltage power lines fell on tracks, and some school roofs in Michigan were swept away.

It's not clear what caused the Detroit apartment fire. Flames and smoke danced through windows of the two-story building on the city's east side Wednesday afternoon as firefighters worked to put out the blaze.

Detroit officials also said the city's communications operations were receiving "an abnormally high volume" of 911 calls due to problems caused by the windy conditions.

No members of Michigan's basketball team were hurt after their plane skidded off the Willow Run Airport runway in Ypsilanti. The takeoff "was aborted ... after strong braking," team spokesman Tom Wywrot said in an email. He added that the plane sustained "extensive damage."

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