Tornado-like damage, but no official twister

Swath of destruction worst on Broadneck Peninsula

By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer

Published 06/06/08

Some area residents were still without power this morning, nearly 48 hours after thunderstorms and reported twisters downed and snapped trees into power lines and homes Wednesday.

The extreme weather included an officially recognized tornado in Chesapeake Beach and what looks like a potential touchdown northeast of Annapolis in a line of damage stretching from Severna Park across the Broadneck Peninsula to Cape St. Claire.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. reported 4,232 customers still in the dark this morning.

Tree removal companies and BGE crews were getting trees off of power lines and reconstructing the electrical...

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Wednesday's tornado - 2008-06-06 19:16:21

I live in Chesapeake Beach, in fact I live in Bay View Hills which is one of the developments in CB that really got creamed. The article is excellent, in fact the first thing I said to my wife after we surveyed the damage, about 5 minutes after it happened, was that I thought it was a straight line tornado. The local paper had a pathetic article about this weather event in which all it talked about was the roof being taken of Traders Restaurant, and the owner missing his daughters graduation. One thing I might want to point out to people is that a lot of the town houses and single family homes here had parts of the roof torn away. These ranged from small to much larger. Reason? Satellite Dishes being ripped from the roofs. Something people might want to think about.

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