I got this email from a friend in Philadelphia about 11:20 last night:
“We are under an area wide tornado alert. What is very bad is that this is at night....They just announced to get to a “safe room”, listen for transformers blowing and then try to see if there is a tornado (at night???!!!!! Are they nuts???!!!!!!!!!!!)
The rain is coming down so hard it is blinding...........we are getting 2 inches per hour and the storm sewers are flooded and filling the streets here........... You can’t go down the basement because of the flooding, and you can’t stay upstairs if you have a tornado..........So now what do you do?????
The banks of the rivers here are overflowing and they are evacuating people in the low-lying areas of Philly near the rivers. This is really bad. The winds are beginning to kick up now and we are being told that we could lose power from 1 to 2 weeks. The eye of the storm is now hitting Delaware, it will probably hit here in about 2 hours.”
A very frightening description. I hope your friend made it through the night safely.