The scene at right was at 7:05 p.m., just outside of Rehoboth Beach. Heavy rain showers had just moved through, though there was not much thunder or lightning. There was a momentary opening of the clouds that showed the sunny skies that had been around earlier in the day, and the tops of the storm clouds above the murk that hovered just over our heads.
As the evening progressed, we watched storms roll across the sky north of Lewes. They tend to pass us to the north, but we did get a few brushes of rain and wind and were able to watch the show from our north-facing living room windows.
And it was possible to track the various storms via twitter.
In Ocean City, Maryland:
- drvcrashI sweat a tornado is coming thru right now
- drvcrash It's hailing sideways
- scottking http://twitpic.com/67xft Hail just shattered the windshield on our neighbors truck. They look like cocktail onions.
- drvcrash @scottking yeah i was watching the cameras at work when it hit and all the customers run in
- scottking @drvcrash I can only picture being putt-putting or on the boardwalk and have it start hailing. Bet it's hilarious to see tourist run.
- del_editor http://twitpic.com/680ld - rainbow outside the news journal
- del_editor power's out in bear, we hear
- del_editor about 5,600 Delmarva Power customers w/o power in Glasgow area. power back on by 11 p.m. they're saying.
- del_editor http://twitpic.com/6863r - rainbow on 141 SB
- del_editor so how's the weather, any power outage situations out there in the south, north and in between delaware?
- andytuba @del_editor Well, Newark had that weird yellow sky earlier, but it stopped raining a while ago and the power's doing fine.
- lifeontheedges @del_editor not much crazy weather here, lots of thunder and lightning for a while but calm now. sky looked like orange sherbet at sunset.
- del_editorI love the power of twitter. In a few seconds, I can gauge weather throughout state. thank you, all.
- lifeontheedges wow, looking at flooding in Salisbury on @wboc preview
- martenhogeweg even the fox weather man is twittering: it's sunny in socal.. it's sunny in socal.. it's sunny in socal..
- oceanviewde Storm last night was worth the incredible weather it brought for today!
2 comments:
Very good post Michael! Your post brings back to mind the plane crash outside of Buffalo, NY a few months back. Fox News followed a few people on Twitter who were there on the scene, actually got one of them on the phone for an interview. Citizen reporters, it is so cool.
Cool post!
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