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I know this is wordless Wednesday but if you don’t live on the East Coast you probably didn’t hear this word in the past five days. A dercho is a widespread and long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms. Generally, derechos are convection-induced and take on a bow echo form of squall line. They travel in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the wind is sustained and generally, increases in strength behind the front. A warm-weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially during June and July in the Northern Hemisphere. (source: wikipedia)
We thankfully only lost one tree and our power was only out 13 hours. Yes, I said only one tree and only 13 hours. 20% of the people without power as a result still don’t have power. They don’t expect power to be fully restored until this Friday … a WEEK later! Many in this area lost many HUGE trees … we lost this one no where near the house.
We were blessed even if the wind did twist the trunk of one of pear trees like it was a toothpick!
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Wow! Those pictures are amazing. I am glad you have power!
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It’s amazing what mother nature can do!
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Mother Nature has been nasty all around this country and those shots are evident of what people are going through. Glad your power came back on relatively quickly
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Wow, we had a lot of storm damage around here too. Tons of trees down and power out.
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Wow, nature isn’t playing around. I’ve never heard of that word before, glad everything turned out OK.
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Wow those storms can be serious. Glad your family is ok
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Scary! That just downed that tree like nothing!
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I live in NH but did not hear about this nor have I ever heard of this before. We have not had storms in my town but yet a town over got hit, was very weird weather but nothing like this. Wow.
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I’ve never heard of that, sorry you had to deal with awful weather. I hope people get their power back soon.
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I have never heard of this before. Off to Google and learn more!
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Glad to hear you’re all okay.
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That is crazy and luckily didn’t do more damage than it probably could of.
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a lot of my East Coast friends are dealing with this – glad your losses were minimal!
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Glad things weren’t worse than they were!
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Wow that storm ripped up that tree. Glad ya’ll are okay. Happy 4th and Wordless Wednesday!
Those winds can be so nasty! We were outside on the 3rd when the storm rolled in her in NW PA, it was so quick and luckily didn’t get bad in our area but man are they scary!
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I can’t imagine being without power for ONE hour in this heat
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Oh my goodness! I don’t even WANT to think about what it would be like without power here for more than an hour.
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So scary! I’m just glad no one was hurt!
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I had never heard of that before! I’m glad everyone is okay.
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