Avdave Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 On Rt 15 Uprooted Tree for a 2-3 miles stretch on Rt 7 all the traffic lights were non working, all turn lanes were blocked off and intersections had police tape across them Flag poles along road snapped in the wind road signs snapped from the force of the wind, there were about 5-7 signs like this size all snapped from the winds Generator working traffic signal here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appskiah Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Derecho engulfs Tysons Corner Windblown rain roars over WFC metro garage, illuminated by street lamp (1.4s exposure). why antiques should be kept in garages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodhokie Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I posed this in the other thread, figured it'd go here as well. I opted not to go out and get damage pictures since the roads are pretty much too narrow and with trees down makes it damn near impossible for passage. Estimates are up to a week to get power up for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Classic Derecho developing in the dreaded NW flow severe weather pattern. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 A bit OT, but I lived about 1/4 mi. from that intersection from 1999-2005. All I can contribute is that I know we never experienced anything close to the 71 mph reported at IAD during that time. In fact, the only weather-related outage I remember off the top of my head was from Floyd in 9/99, and that lasted all of 4 hours or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Mike Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 OMG wxtrix. Just horrifying. Seems that folks DC north got the worst of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeWinds Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 From the Frederick News Post, a house in Frederick was struck by lightning just before the winds rolled in. The high winds caused the house to be consumed by flames. The owners were home and thankfully made it out safely. http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=137665#.T_BuRk9yx7I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Power back up after 36 hours. Can't really complain. Here's a smattering of pics from my neighborhood. No major damage to my property but we were surrounded by tree damage on all sides. I went out to get gas for the generator and tried to avoid the backups on the major roads but all the stealth roads were blocked. I went out to the College Park disc golf course to play a couple rounds (last pic). The course got crushed. It was alot of fun with all the new obstacles though. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted July 1, 2012 Author Share Posted July 1, 2012 Damn Bob, nice pics, and Im sure everyone is thankful for the Road closed sign in the one pic. lol. you guys hit pretty good it looks like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodhokie Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 @Bob I find it amusing that people really need the "Road Closed" sign when there are large trees (and probably hidden power lines) and branches blocking the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 When I first saw the road closed signed I was like "really? I couldn't tell". Too funny. I got very lucky this go around. My house is surrounded by pretty extensive damage and I only had to pick up small branches. I paid my dues a couple years back though with the big july storm. Took a branch through the roof and had to shell out a couple grand to my tree guy. I have 7 trees over 50' tall in my backyard and every big storm makes me nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 When I first saw the road closed signed I was like "really? I couldn't tell". Too funny. I got very lucky this go around. My house is surrounded by pretty extensive damage and I only had to pick up small branches. I paid my dues a couple years back though with the big july storm. Took a branch through the roof and had to shell out a couple grand to my tree guy. I have 7 trees over 50' tall in my backyard and every big storm makes me nervous. Pucker factor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Well if they need this warning, I guess they need that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I saw some damage pics in the other late june storms thread, if an admin would be so kind to move them over to here for continuity.. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catoctin wx Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 From the Frederick News Post, a house in Frederick was struck by lightning just before the winds rolled in. The high winds caused the house to be consumed by flames. The owners were home and thankfully made it out safely. http://www.frederick...65#.T_BuRk9yx7I >Saw that the other day, very scary stuff. The house has a full sprinkler system, but since it started on the roof from the lightning, it didn't make a difference. My house is built the same way, which makes me nervous. Seems like most of Frederick faired pretty well. We seemed to have more lightning, but nowhere near the winds that people had in the surrounding areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 Can I send my video to someone so they can upload it? I cant figure how the hell to do it here. It is a 30 second video and when I try it here, it says it is to large of a file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinwood Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Can I send my video to someone so they can upload it? I cant figure how the hell to do it here. It is a 30 second video and when I try it here, it says it is to large of a file. Put it on youtube and then link it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeWinds Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 >Saw that the other day, very scary stuff. The house has a full sprinkler system, but since it started on the roof from the lightning, it didn't make a difference. My house is built the same way, which makes me nervous. Seems like most of Frederick faired pretty well. We seemed to have more lightning, but nowhere near the winds that people had in the surrounding areas. I posted the same thing the other day...I'm not sure I have ever seen an electrical storm like that. I was coming from Clustered Spires towards Rt. 26 then down Rt. 15 and saw amazing branched out lightning. The cloud to ground was too frequent and close and it was eerie the number of times I saw the sky go green from transformers blowing. Most of that lightning was from the initial storms that popped up here preceding the squall line, which we were on the northern fringe of. When I got home, I had a fried cardinal on my porch. poor guy was more black than red. As far as wind...gusty but nothing like the hurricane winds further south. I saw at least 5 big trees down around my neighborhood but all were Bradford Pears...a light breeze could have done the same damage to them. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodbineWX Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Woodbine, West Howard County near Union Chapel and Florence Road. Never seen anything like it, these trees are huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 From the Frederick News Post, a house in Frederick was struck by lightning just before the winds rolled in. The high winds caused the house to be consumed by flames. The owners were home and thankfully made it out safely. http://www.frederick...65#.T_BuRk9yx7I 20 years or so ago, when i was still a firefighter, we had a bad storm and a house got struck by lightning starting it on fire, a big 3 story old farm house. Anyhow, i had advanced a hose up into a well involved attic, as i was knocking down the fire this was this huge bang and rumble, it scared the Chit out of me. A little while later when i cam out of the house, here the house right across the street was hit too. crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Woodbine, West Howard County near Union Chapel and Florence Road. Never seen anything like it, these trees are huge. Great shot and damn impressive. It looks like you could just stand them back up and glue 'em down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 Not in our region but part of the derecho system. This was taken Fri afternoon June 29 at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International airport. Pretty impressive photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I posted these in the storm thread, but figure I should re-post here as well. Unfortunately I didn't have time on Saturday to get out and shoot with my DSLR, so here are some samplings from around town via cell phone camera. Large tree down in front of Herndon Middle School My brother was nice enough to give everyone a scale as to the size of these trees that came down. The one he's standing on was pretty massive, with two trees that formed from one trunk. Just out of frame off to the left is a row of townhouses, so they're definitely lucky this didn't angle just slightly to the left This is a driving range in Sterling, right off of Rt. 28. The larger poles holding up the netting are telephone poles, and the poles attached to the tops of the telephone poles are what look to be pretty thick metal. They used to all be standing straight up, holding the netting up The telephone pole behind the sebring in this photo is actually snapped at the bottom The below photos I'm stealing from a brother's facebook album Herndon/Reston Herndon This one looks like it sorta just gave up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I posted these in the storm thread, but figure I should re-post here as well. Unfortunately I didn't have time on Saturday to get out and shoot with my DSLR, so here are some samplings from around town via cell phone camera. Large tree down in front of Herndon Middle School My brother was nice enough to give everyone a scale as to the size of these trees that came down. The one he's standing on was pretty massive, with two trees that formed from one trunk. Just out of frame off to the left is a row of townhouses, so they're definitely lucky this didn't angle just slightly to the left This is a driving range in Sterling, right off of Rt. 28. The larger poles holding up the netting are telephone poles, and the poles attached to the tops of the telephone poles are what look to be pretty thick metal. They used to all be standing straight up, holding the netting up The telephone pole behind the sebring in this photo is actually snapped at the bottom The below photos I'm stealing from a brother's facebook album Herndon/Reston Herndon This one looks like it sorta just gave up The Bannana peeled tree is interesting. Almost looks like the wind came straight down from above. Horizontal winds and gravity probably dit it though one branch broke and the trunk became unstable. I doubt the downward component was fast enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 This was on the Charleston NWS Facebook page: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Here's a 5 hour Level II loop from KLWX as the Derecho passes through. .gif is a hair over 40mb so click cautiously. https://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1puGxDtgdsBMpFf54Cu15Tce7rQKXyPgFSXdxzkJu5rInZoiLRCdQWfCGk3mjuKFKMq5W00dUmzn2qxqTQhD4IiQ/29jun12%20derecho.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormitecture Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I really like the one from the Vortex2 folks: edit: Corrected YT video link Added: Two hail pictures, first is near Hyattstown, MD (n. MoCo). The second image is from near (sw of) Damascus, MD Untitled by WeatherWarrior.Net, on Flickr Untitled by WeatherWarrior.Net, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freestater Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I knew this would be relevant some day. NSFW language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disc Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Finally got time to get to a local coffee shop and they finally have internet here. Still don't have power or internet at home. I'll post a few photos I snapped while I could and a screencap of the outflow as it moved through Roanoke. (last image before I lost power) This was just one area. Trees were snapped like that citywide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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