A line of strong storms knocked out power for thousands of people on Wednesday around the Triangle.
The storms started popping up around 6 p.m. and began causing problems for residents around Durham and Wake counties. At its peak, more than 3,000 people lost power in Wake County, and more than 6,453 were without power in Durham County.
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In Holly Springs, residents saw hail move into the area. On Thorndale Drive, town leaders said an "electrical issue" was caused by a lightning strike.
Lightning was a major problem Wednesday night throughout Wake County. In Raleigh, two homes in 3500 block of Althorp Drive caught on fire after authorities said they were hit by lightning.
When fire crews arrived the first home had smoke showing and the second had fire and smoke coming from the homes. The number of those displaced is unknown; both fires are under investigation.
According to the Town of Cary, they also had several reports of storm damage.
Several trees fell, including one coming down on a power line on Fairlane Road, a spokesperson said.
The Cary Fire Department also responded to a couple of structure fires due to lightning strikes. Fortunately, there was no major damage and no one was injured.
When lightning wasn't coming down, trees were. Police said a tree fell onto an apartment at the Lake Johnson Mews on Avent Ferry Road. Some of the cars in the parking lot were also damaged by debris as the tree fell.
Authorities don't believe anyone was injured.
This is the third straight night where severe storms brought power outages and damage to central North Carolina.
On Monday, Franklin and Sampson counties were hit the hardest by storms, which brought severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for several hours.
Then, on Tuesday, flooding caused several roads in Chapel Hill to completely shut down, and lighting strikes in Wake County led to two explosions.