A line of intense thunderstorms downed trees and power lines in parts of the D.C. region Monday and knocked out power to thousands of customers, but it fell short of the more dramatic devastation that forecasters were concerned about.
A line of intense thunderstorms downed trees and power lines in parts of the D.C. region Monday and knocked out power to thousands of customers. But it fell short of the more dramatic devastation that forecasters were concerned about.Many Washingtonians living inside the Beltway and to the east were surprised by how docile the storms seemed after all the alarm. The National Weather Service posted a tornado watch and put the area at its highest storm risk level in a decade.
by downed utility poles in Westminster. Some of the most devastating damage occurred in a west-to-east corridor along the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, less than 50 miles from Montgomery County, showing how close the D.C. metro area was to suffering more destructive storms.
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