Wild wind with gusts topping 60 mph knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and disrupted travel from the Great Lakes to the East Coast.

Nearly 250,000 customers lost power in Ohio alone late Wednesday and early today. There were also about 52,000 outages in Michigan, more than 30,000 around Buffalo, N.Y., and more than 200,000 in Pennsylvania.

A downed power line forced the closure of Interstate 90 west of Erie for three hours on Thursday morning.

In Kentucky, devastated by a crippling ice storm two weeks ago, Public Service Commission spokesman Andrew Melnykovych said Wednesday night that the winds had resulted in at least 120,000 new outages. Most of those were in the southeastern part of the state, while the ice storm outages were mostly in western Kentucky.

Outages were also reported in Tennessee, New Jersey, North Carolina, Indiana and Maryland.

Gusts topping 65 mph were reported Wednesday night in Indiana and Ohio as a cold front moved through. Gusts as high as 45 mph were still being reported by this morning in that area.