Delmarva Flood Event

Strong winds in combination with high tides brought a lot of coastal flooding to Delmarva. Areas witnessed power outages, trees down blocking roads and impassible, flooded roads.

Weather Watcher Hunter Outten of Frankford, Del. had trees down blocking roads and structrual damage to his home. Here are a few pictures he sent in to us:

We also received additional reports from our Weather Watchers:

Carol Loy in Oriole, Md. reported branches down, luckily no full trees. She said she thought the water was going to get a lot higher than it did, so Carol was very happy that it didn't.

Tom Mullikin in Bethany Beach, Del. went for a drive and reported a lot of roads under water. He said there was a powerline down on Ocean Drive. Tom also said from his house the waves looked scaringly high.

Ted Parker in Millsboro, Del. (between Millsboro and Rehoboth Beach to be exact) said he had water right up to his house, but no damage. He said the water was right up to a lot of the houses near him, but didn't think there was too much damage. Ted said there were also trees down.

Hunter Outten in Frankford, Del. reported tree damage and structure damage to his house. He said he had sustained winds Sunday night of 43 mph with wind gusts over 60 mph.

Tom Loockerman in Bridgeville, Del. said he had a lot of tree limbs down around his house.

Betty Miles in George Island Landing, Md. said she had a lot of water. She said the roads down by the Bay were also covered in water. She also had a lot of down tree limbs on her driveway. Betty said it looked like her trees went through a blender! She also said the governement put out high water signs.

Paul Yannucci in Milton, Del. said there were lots roads under water and closed.

Chucky Plummer in Lewes, Del. said there were a lot of tree branches down and uprooted trees blocking the roads. He also reported a lot of roads closed towards the beach (Savannah Road was one he mentioned.) Chucky said he couldn't pass on the Lewes Bridge because it was shut down, when he tried to go to the sotre. Other than the trees and flooded roads, Chucky said the rain was extremely heavy overnight and today and the winds were very strong.

Kenny Wheatly in Cambridge, Md. said he had one and a half inches of rain piled up in his back yard and tree limbs on the road. He also reported that the lower half of the county was flooded.


Here are you rain totals for the entire event as of 10 p.m. Monday night:

Georgetown: 2.91"
Frankford, Weather Watcher Hunter Outten: 2.60"
Bridgeville, Weather Watcher Tom Loockerman: 2.40"
Milsboro, Weather Watcher Ted Parker: 2.40"
Milton, Weather Watcher Paul Yannucci: 2.25"
Fenwick Island, Weather Watcher John Barthel: 2.00"
Salisbury: 1.86"
Dover: 1.81"
Wallops Island: 1.67"
Cambridge, Weather Watcher Kenny Wheatly: 1.50"
Oriole, Weather Watcher Carol Loy: 1.50"
Lewes, Weather Watcher Chucky Plummer: 1.50"
Sharptown, Weather Watcher George Tarpley: Over 1.00"
Easton: 0.98"