Storm Damages
May 7, 2004
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since June 1, 2004
It was sunny and hot, with a slight chance of isolated thunderstorms later in the day. Because of our location, I only grocery shop a couple times a month. I had just gotten all the groceries unloaded and put away when the sky grew dark and the storm hit. It blew pretty hard and about 10 minutes into the storm there was a loud whirling sound for just a few seconds. Then it began to hail, but turns out it wasn't hail, but small stones coming down from the sky. They were on our porches, vehicles and heat pump!
Though the wind blew hard briefly, it didn't roar like it did during Hurricane Isabel. (see my hurricane page for more details on the Category 1 hurricane). Yet we lost almost as many trees as we did during the hurricane! Fortunately, however, we were only without power for 48 hours from this storm. After Hurricane Isabel, we didn't have power for 11 days!!
Photos from our yard and around the area of storm damages.
Small branches covered the back yard |
Trees down in the edge of the woods |
Trees down on West end of yard |
Just off route 3 & 301 |
Part of our driveway |
Another view of our blocked driveway |
Small branches impaled the ground |
Leaves & small stones covered our vehicles |
Trees above the shed |
Roots from downed trees |
Quite a few trees just snapped off |
Trees piled on Welcome Road |
Some areas of the county were even harder hit than we were!! These were photos on the front page of our local newspaper, King George Journal.
King George County Paper Front page photo #1 |
King George County Paper Front page photo #2 |
King George County Paper Front page photo #3 |
King George County Paper Front page photo #4 |
Copyright © 2004 Marla Kay Urie Price