High winds, heavy rain and a possible tornado in White Oak tore up East County yesterday, causing considerable damage and putting thousands of people in the dark.
What'd you see in the storm? If you've got any photos, leave links to them in the comments. (I'd offer to post them, but I'm still sitting in a dark house until I can get to a coffeeshop.
What'd you see in the storm? If you've got any photos, leave links to them in the comments. (I'd offer to post them, but I'm still sitting in a dark house until I can get to a coffeeshop.
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That bridge at 29 and Burnt Mills concerns me. On the east side, you have class 5 rapids (called the Colesville Crusher by some kayakers) and on the west side is that small dam. Big storms overflow the bridge regularly and have to be messing with it's foundations. The county or state has been working to put in sidewalks right by there and did some work on the bridge itself. I wonder if a replacement is due.
I plugged my electric car in last night went to sleep and lo and behold- no power.
Well I will just switch over to gas and fill the tank at the service station(I had the gas rundown to almost empty, thinking once it was charged I could drive to work and fill the tank later)
I get to the service station- no power- no pumps no gas..
By now -no way to get over- I had used up my last amount of gas.
I walked home- maybe I will ride the bike to work.
Got home- saw the bike-- it was smashed and twisted and banged up-- a tree had fallen on it.
Went inside- poured me a vodka and went to bed.
There is always tomorrow
Bob Fustero
Have you found any documentation on the "tornado"? I am in 4 corners and swear I heard tornado sounds (have lived through a couple), but I cannot find anything other than the tornado warning (strong rotation) that was given during the event.
My family thought they saw a tornado here in Calverton, but according to the Capital Weather Gang, there weren't any actual tornadoes produced by Sunday's storm in the D.C. area.
Ya, I heard that too from "official" weather sources, but I also know that tornadoes are very difficult to ascertain, and even trained spotters often don't know. They can be invisible and/or hidden by intense rain (as we definitely had), etc. I noticed that the two places that they did an evaluation where in the Western and Northern parts of the county, not White Oak. So I'm still holding out for a small twister...
Dan, the U.S. 29 bridge over the Northwest Branch at Burnt Mills has been damaged by overflowing waters at least twice since 1970.
The most-severe damage was after the rains that fell in June, 1972 when Hurricane Agnes dumped tremendous amounts of rain on Maryland. U.S. 29 was closed between Four Corners and White Oak for quite a few days.
Some years later, another storm did more damage to the bridge, though it was not closed as long the second time around.
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