Storms, Floods, Mudslides Tie Up D.C. Area (and the Whole Mid-Atlantic)

Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 6/26/2006 | Marty Niland

[Pyro7480]

"Mudslides" and "Alexandria, VA" are two things you don't often see put together. It probably happened because of all the construction in the area associated with the Wilson Bridge project.

Heavy storms caused flooding and downed trees and power lines in the Washington, D.C. area, Monday, June 26, 2006, including this large oak tree that fell at President Bush's doorstep in front of the White House. Heavy winds and rains knocked the large tree down overnight. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

[Pyro7480]

Delmarva news ping!

[Izzy Dunne]

Karl Rove is out of control with his weather machine - attacking another predominantly-black city.

[Bean Counter]

bummer

It's gonna be in the triple digits up here in the Pacifist Northwest today.

At least it's a dry heat...

[Gabz]

DelMarVa PING!!!!!!!!!!

You beat me to it Pyro - I'm still pulling links and stuff.........but it's still bad throughout Dorchester and Caroline Counties in Maryland and the Seaford area of Delaware.

The sun is trying to poke out it's head here in Accomac.....

[Mo1]

The rain up near Philly's been bad also .. I just bleeping poured rain the last 2 days

[marshmallow]

Flooding from a weekend of heavy rain shut down the Justice Department building, Internal Revenue Service headquarters and the National Archives on Monday,....

Good news bump........

[freeperfromnj]

Where's FEMA and debt cards for the northeasterners? Have you seen pictures coming out of Delaware and Ohio? There are homes totally under water. What a mess.

[DTogo]

How many more inches of rain until Congress is washed away? (wishful thinking...)

[Pyro7480]

Well, at least with IRS part. ;-)

[ßuddaßudd]

Anyone have any info on how bad it is (or isnt) in Middlesex County VA?

[ArrogantBustard]

I saw news video this morning of cars up to their windows in water on "Maryland's Eastern Shore". Anybody know exactly where that was?

[Pyro7480]

That was probably Federalsburg, MD, which was mentioned in the article.

[NormsRevenge]

Nothing but one giant skeeter factory this summer.. Swat!


Sorry to see the elm bite it at the WH.

I thought one of our local TV talking heads was gonna cry announcing the tree, planted during the era of Teddy Roosevelt.

I wonder if it made any noise when it fell. (Probably said, "Progressive".)

Prayers and best wishes to all those in the mess and thanks for posting..

pics follow :-)

[Graymatter]

I saw news video this morning of cars up to their windows in water on "Maryland's Eastern Shore". Anybody know exactly where that was?

Further west than before, I daresay.
Seriously, it's where the Atlantic Ocean ends along the border of the state of Maryland. But that's not important now.
Meanwhile here in central PA the 10-day forecast is all wet. :(

[ArrogantBustard]

Thanks ... I didn't catch that.

We've had a huge amount of rain in western Fairfax Co. over the past week, but no flooding. I guess we've been lucky. So far.

[Pyro7480]

We've had a huge amount of rain in western Fairfax Co. over the past week, but no flooding.

I'm in southeastern Fairfax, just south of the Beltway, and we've had a huge amount of rain as well. It has created a lot of potholes, and we lost power for less than an hour, so I can't really complain.

[xsmommy]

i dropped my daughter at work in Alexandria this AM and saw cars littering both sides of GW Parkway with a lake in between in and outbound lanes. i am amazed that i was able to get her there and back into DC in an hour or so.

[duckbutt]

Live in Reston, VA and streets were flooded near USGS - -

Had some water in the basement even though we did water proofing a few years ago. Thought we were going to lift off the foundation and float away yesterday. Record 6" of rain yesterday at Dulles airport......

[ArrogantBustard]

I just looked out the window.

It's raining.

Again