Tornado touched down here in Gibbstown/Swedesboro/East Greenwich area in Gloucester County. Trees down everywhere. Houses hit. Etc. Luckily my house escaped it despite it touching down a couple blocks away. Hope everyone in the area is ok.
OT: Tornado, hope everyone is ok.
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I grew up in Gloucester County (Washington Twp) and lots of FB reports of significant damage from either the tornado (not sure if it's been confirmed yet) or whatever severe storms hit - lots of pics of trees down and hundreds of thousands without power. As with most mesoscale convective events, impacts were widely variable, with many locations (much of Central Jersey) getting very little rain/wind/storms and other areas getting hammered, as in South Jersey and parts of NYC/LI. Conditions were ripe for major severe storms and they hit in spots, but not as widespread as feared.
My g/f lives in mantua and was driving home from the Deptford mall right before it hit....it is a major major mess down there right now
Lot of power and trees out. Mess everywhere
Lot of power and trees out. Mess everywhere
Watched the Philly news tonight as my daughter just moved to the city 2 weeks ago. What a mess.
5th highest wind gusts ever recorded in center city.
5th highest wind gusts ever recorded in center city.
I do a trivia tournament in Pitman on Tuesday nights with some friends. As I drove down 295, the clouds got darker and a little greenish, and then tons of lightning struck. The downpour was brutal. After glancing at the traffic on my Google Maps app, I decided to take side roads because 55 and 42 looked bad. Two cops in Woodbury sent me through a maze of residential streets with fallen branches, and one branch pulled a telephone wire down fairly low over the road. The second cop sent everyone back to where we came from, so I tried another road toward 55 and THAT was blocked by a tree.
To make a long story short, I decided to go on 55 which had crawling traffic. There were trees in the middle of that highway. I dropped into my best friend's liquor store to say hi and pick up some things for our LBI house. Another friend of his who works at the restaurant where the trivia competition is came in asking for a flashlight, and said that the power went out there at 6:00 (this was around 8:00, the competition usually starts at 8:30). So much for the trivia. Everyone was rushing around, and I hadn't eaten since the early afternoon because I thought I would have dinner at the restaurant.
At least the sunset was pretty.
To make a long story short, I decided to go on 55 which had crawling traffic. There were trees in the middle of that highway. I dropped into my best friend's liquor store to say hi and pick up some things for our LBI house. Another friend of his who works at the restaurant where the trivia competition is came in asking for a flashlight, and said that the power went out there at 6:00 (this was around 8:00, the competition usually starts at 8:30). So much for the trivia. Everyone was rushing around, and I hadn't eaten since the early afternoon because I thought I would have dinner at the restaurant.
At least the sunset was pretty.
i checked the radar around 5/6p last night. Saw a bow echo south of Philly moving east/south east into SNJ. Knew it wouldn't be pretty.
We had that in Baltimore too. The orange skies portend an Os win.I do a trivia tournament in Pitman on Tuesday nights with some friends. As I drove down 295, the clouds got darker and a little greenish, and then tons of lightning struck. The downpour was brutal. After glancing at the traffic on my Google Maps app, I decided to take side roads because 55 and 42 looked bad. Two cops in Woodbury sent me through a maze of residential streets with fallen branches, and one branch pulled a telephone wire down fairly low over the road. The second cop sent everyone back to where we came from, so I tried another road toward 55 and THAT was blocked by a tree.
To make a long story short, I decided to go on 55 which had crawling traffic. There were trees in the middle of that highway. I dropped into my best friend's liquor store to say hi and pick up some things for our LBI house. Another friend of his who works at the restaurant where the trivia competition is came in asking for a flashlight, and said that the power went out there at 6:00 (this was around 8:00, the competition usually starts at 8:30). So much for the trivia. Everyone was rushing around, and I hadn't eaten since the early afternoon because I thought I would have dinner at the restaurant.
At least the sunset was pretty.
Was pretty bad in the Cherry Hill/Marlton/Voorhees area. Cherokee High School's parking lot on one side was littered with trees that came down along the fence line between the school and the adjacent neighborhood. Route 73 in Voorhees/Marlton is a mess with no power. Route 38 was no better as was Route 70 in those areas.
The sunset from our apartment in Robbinsville was just amazing last night.
I live in Mullica Hill about a town over from where it touched down. Our area got rocked! Right now me wifey and the kids are staying in a hotel down in Millville and using their wifi because its all we got. Verizon cell service is down, landlines are down, and we've been without power since about 630 last night. No a/c. No water (we are well water) etc. Insane. The good news is we are all ok and were able to take off of work today. But yeah. This is unfortunate. Thousands without power.
I have extensive experience with tornadoes, unfortunately.
Y'all do the best you can to be safe. Get low, stay low. Do not try to be heroic while they are in your area. Be heroic after they have moved through!
Y'all do the best you can to be safe. Get low, stay low. Do not try to be heroic while they are in your area. Be heroic after they have moved through!
Good advice Southern. :)
Phila- What town are you in specifically? (Oh, der, after I posted this I noticed under your avatar it says Gibbstown... yeah you got blasted, too no doubt). Our power here in Mullica Hill was restored about 24 hours after the outage, but we were lucky... we live pretty close to downtown so we're thinking that got us some early attention from the power company. My parents on the other hand weren't as lucky. They, too live in MH about 5 minutes from us, but they live a little more on the rural outskirts, and they just got their power restored this morning.
Side note, the Clarksboro / Mickelton / East. Greenwich areas seem to have received the brunt of it from what I've seen. Looks like an absolute disaster zone. Downed trees everywhere. I take Cohawkin Rd. to work every day and needless to say it's been an adventure trying to maneuver through all the lane & road closings in that area.
Anyway, good luck! Hopefully won't be much longer for you.
East Greenwich started getting it back this afternoon. Gibbstown started tonight. I'll find out when I get home. Somehow my mom is missing power in Swedesboro while all her neighbors have it. And my aunt and uncle will be one of the last to get power in Woolwich because of how isolated they are.
