I Survived the Storm

If you are anything like me when I lived in Washington, you are probably not too aware/concerned with Tropical Storm Hannah, the most recent almost-hurricane that has visited the east coast. I, on the other hand, woke up to Hannah knocking on my door. Fortunately though, it wasn't as bad as people had predicted it would be. Basically it was just a lot of rain. Kind of like home actually! The following excerpt from a recent Washington Post article talks about the damage. To give you some perspective, Prince William County (the hardest hit) is almost an hour away from me. Fairfax county is about 15 mins. Apparently the power is out in parts of D.C. (about 15 mins away) but it is on at my house. The rain has stopped. And through it all, it stayed warm outside. Tomorrow is projected to be 85 degrees and sunny!



"Tropical Storm Hanna eased its way out of the Washington region early this evening, leaving behind closed roads, spot flooding and at least one fatality, but, despite rains that measured more than six and seven inches in spots, far less destruction than had been feared."

"The damage appears worst in Northern Virginia, where Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Prince William was the hardest-hit county in the state. Flooding in central and southern Fairfax County prompted a couple of small scale evacuations, authoritities said."

"Trees fell throughout the area, and in one Woodbridge neighborhood a tree fell on a single family home, but no injuries were reported. Rocio Chavaria, 18, was watching TV in the living room with her family when they heard a loud cracking sound. A thick branch broke through the ceiling of the kitchen."

"Water was coming in and I said 'Oh Lord'," she said. "I'm upset by the damage, but we're relieved that everybody's fine and no one got hurt."

"By 5 p.m., the wind and rain were all but gone from the area. However, dark clouds still covered the skies as Hanna headed across the Delaware Bay into southern New Jersey."

"Overall, "things are winding down," said Josh Newhard, a meteorologist at the Accuweather forecast service."

"Pepco reported about 10,000 customers without power early this evening in the District and Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Dominion Power said about 9,000Northern Virginia homes were without service."

"Since Hanna's rain bands first began hitting the region this morning, more than six inches of rain have fallen in Leesburg, and 4.8 inches at Dulles International Airport, where winds gusted to 40 miles per hour."

"As Hanna departed, it was apparent that the storm had not caused widespread damage. Though it met the meteorological standards for tropical storms, in its effects, it was essentially reminiscent of one of the area's more powerful thunderstorms."

See the full article HERE.