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crashing. reporter: sound jennifer jackson will never forget as a tree toppled down and split apart her house. terrifying, absolutely terrifying, i have never been through anything like this before. reporter: damage is every where in one of washington township s oldest neighborhood closed road, snapped utility poles down wires, and a tree limbs buried cars. we currently have four trees that came from across the road and they are on a car, truck and house. reporter: like many the entire day became about cleaning up, what they could. the kid are inside. we are trying to keep them safe. we are power lines across our car and all through the trees. is that a little unnerving. very much so. last night they were sparking, so it is not fun. reporter: not fun but still fascinating for neighborhood children like payton whose grandmother s front yard has roots sticking up three times her height. it is scary at first but looking out your window and seeing a tr ....
handing out dry ice to preserve food. if you were lucky, the tree missed your house. i was looking out that window right there, and i see the tree going back and forth, back and forth. the next thing i know the thing starts coming toward me i took off running out the front door. everywhere there were traffic jams. brookhaven in delaware county declared a state of emergency. the reason for it is if there s money to be available and state aide to make it available to the municipalities that were struck. we want it to be in place. of course that is the key thing. once the damage to john s house is at least assessed the question becomes a negotiation with all the storm victims. what isn t covered beyond that that is getting into the emergency declaration status attempts to free up some money to help a lot of these victims. live in brookhaven, doug shimell. nbc10 news. let s take a look at the huge task facing power crews across the region. more than 128,000 peco c ....
until power is restored and alarm systems can go back on. doug shimell, nbc10 news. one of the hardest hit areas is in gloucester county. today meteorologists with the national weather service toured the damage there, less than an hour ago. they ruled there was no tornado, it was straight line winds causing the damage here. glenn hurricane schwartz has been in gloucester county today. he joins us live from mount royal. glenn? renee, we showed you a house right next door to this one that was condemned in the 5:00 hour why did this one survive? it s damaged. i showed you the flimsy garage on the other one, this isn t great, it s insulated. that helps save part of this house. look at all the siding that s gone and part of the top floor. why did that happen? look at this siding. this is pathetic. i have paper towels stronger than that. the other reason that these houses were damaged is an open area right here. if you look real closely, you can see the tree damage an ....
lines with them. it is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the tri-state region falling victim to powerful and destructive storms. they moved in the western edge of the region about 5:00, raced across the area with thousands of lightening strikes and wind topping out at over 70 miles an hour. but the most extraordinary sight was this, the calm after the storm a magnificent sunset in center city philadelphia a. but before that beauty came extensive damage, from king of prussia to wilmington and points in between the wind brought down trees and power lines, and at this hour, hundreds of thousands of homes have no electricity. this is the way it looked on the 200 block of north madison avenue in cherry hill where a tree felon top of the house and in gulph mills montgomery county a large branch crashed through an apartment. action news viewer was rolling on lightening bolts in center city and caught this. it appeared that billy penn, took a dir ....
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