Monday, May 12, 2008

A thoroughly miserable Monday morning

No, you didn’t sleep through summer. It’s not November. It just feels like it out there.

Maybe it’s appropriate for a Monday morning. If you like howling winds, and cold, raw conditions, you’re going to love today’s weather.

If you had trash cans out last night, they might be down the street in a neighbor’s yard about now. Also better check for your lawn furniture and hanging baskets.

Wind gusts overnight reached as high as 35 mph. Down in Pomona, N.J., and also in Delaware, they had gusts as high as 52 mph.

There are reports of scattered power outages. The lights are out on Providence Road near the Media Bypass. There’s at least one road closure in the county, with Bryn Mawr Avenue near Sproul Road in Radnor closed because of a downed tree. There’s also a 30-minute delay on regional rail lines because of power line problems.

Around the region it’s actually a lot worse. Down in Delaware, they are evacuating people in the Bowers Beach area because of severe flooding.

And it’s only going to get worse as the day goes on. Winds will pick up throughout the day, hitting their peak around 1 or 2 this afternoon.

Batten down the hatches, it’s going to be a thoroughly miserable start to the work week.

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