West Chester Police and Fire Departments responded to more than a combined 100 calls for service during the storm. Incidents ranged from flooded roadways, trees down, wires down and a water rescue. No injuries in the borough were reported.
In the early 1930s, an upper-class soap opera love affair between Edward VIII and Baltimorean Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he abandoned the English throne, caused a stir.