MILWAUKEE - Storms ravaged parts of Southeastern Wisconsin, with intense lightning and flooding throughout the area.

As of 11:00 a.m., 7,000 We Energies customers remain without power due to the storms.  Streets and freeways remain impassable after severe storms moved across the region Thursday night and dumped between three and five inches of rain in some areas. 

A number of strikes of lightning hit homes, causing fires across the area.  There is no word of any injuries.

One woman had to be saved from the top of her car in a flooded street.  A firefighter carried her to safety after her car got flooded out near the corner of North 31st and West Capitol Drive on Milwaukee's north side.  Her condition is not known.

Many people had their basements flooded, including Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Bill Michaels.  Click here to read about what happened to his home.

A few businesses have been affected, including GE Healthcare in Waukesha, which has closed its south building.

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People in West Allis spent Friday cleaning out their flooded basements.  Along South 69th Street, residents report water was 4 feet in the street deep during the storm.  They say the water got so high that it ran down foundations and into their basements.  "Pretty much the furnace, the freezer, washer-dryer, water heater, pretty much guessing that's all gone," said West Allis resident Jason Schilling. 

On the Root River Parkway in West Allis, Loriann Melby's basement flooded again this year.  "We have a sewage pump in, actually, and it couldn't keep up with it," she said.  Melby and her family moved most of their belongings out of the basement when the pounding rain started.  However, they predict there will be more water in their basement during Friday night's predicted storms.  After the rain is gone, they will clean and dry out their foundation. 

Areas of Iowa that were hit by the same system reported trees knocked down by strong winds and large hail. At one point trained weather spotters reported seeing a funnel cloud form near Wind Lake, Wisconsin, prompting a tornado warning for several counties.

In addition to the power outages, many drivers had to find alternate routes as streets became flooded. The Department of Transportation reports some freeways, including I-94 near Miller Park in Milwaukee, became completely impassable.

Standing water remains on many area roads and freeways.

The TODAY'S TMJ4 over-the-air transmitter is down after a lightning strike, but the broadcast is still coming to TV viewers on cable systems.

What To Expect Today?

"It's going to be the warmest and most humid day we've had so far this spring. You're really going to fell it. (It's going to be very muggy. The sun is going to come out later. High temperatures should make it into the mid 80's, and it's going to feel real tropical."

But with tropical conditions often come more storms, and that is what is expected.

"After this morning, showers and thunderstorms diminish. Once it warms up and gets real humid again and the sun comes out, eventually, that warming is probably going to lead to another round of thunderstorms this afternoon, perhaps as early as lunchtime, perhaps as we get later into the afternoon, and like last night, some of the storms could really be heavy."

"They could be torrential rain producers, with lots of dangerous lightning and damaging winds and large hail, with at least a few storms this afternoon. Those could continue into tonight. I think they could be done by about midnight."

And with that, more flooding could happen.

"There's a pretty good chance there could be more flash flooding later."