These storms we've had the past few days have been incredibly localized. At my house we got a few downpours, a little bit of wind, a few claps of thunder, absolutely nothing worth writing about, much less justifying the incoming "Flash Flood Alerts" that sound like an air-raid siren on my phone.
But friends who live only a few miles distant reported deluges of rain, gusts of wind, power loss and -- in one case -- some major erosion. The June 13 storm that took down That Tree clobbered the trees along Apple Grove Road, which was littered with branches and broken trunks. The intersection of Apple Grove and Green Valley was especially hard hit.
After the June 18 storm I made it to my class at the Jennersville Y without seeing any damage at all, but my classmates started trickling in late reporting that parts of Route 1 were shut down, as well as Route 41 between Chatham and Route 926 (the detour was Routes 841 and 926). One woman who lives on a farm along 926 was dismayed to see a parade of tractor-trailers on her road and wondered how she was going to get her rig out of her driveway.
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