A massive snowstorm, coupled with winds reaching 70 mph and large 2.5-inch hail stones, hit Illinois on Friday in a 'freak' weather system that was expected bring 50 inches of snow to Western Montana and deliver an early winter to states as far as California. Temperatures in the Midwest were plummeting unusually early this year, with forecasters warning of trees falling to damage power lines, damaging waves on Flathead Lake in Montana, and dangerous travel conditions all the way to the West Coast lasting until Monday. As a thunderstorm frontal ripped through Illinois, in Chicago, four people had to be rescued from Lake Michigan and high winds hit during a thunderstorm in Manteno, knocking down tents and ruining an Oktoberfest event, ABC News reported. It came as approximately 70 reports of severe weather emerged from Kansas to Indiana, that latter which was under a flash flood warning as six inches of rain fell in the northwest area Saturday morning. 💦❄️😱

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! Nigerian authorities are scrambling to find the families of the hundreds of men and boys freed from a school where they were kept in chains, sexually abused and tortured. Police freed as many as 400 captives, aged from six to 50, from the 'house of horror' in Kaduna in northern Nigeria in a raid on Thursday. Some were chained to radiators, tires or hub caps and others bore visible signs of scars from whippings and beatings while others had been sodomised. More than a dozen, including 10 children, were hospitalised today with some in critical condition, with one vomiting blood. 😱