July 26, 2010
By: Carrie Van Brunt
An unusually intense thunderstorm in the mid-Atlantic area slammed into the nation's capital late last weekend, causing widespread power outages and serious damage to many homes in the vicinity. Strong winds tore branches from trees and whipped them dangerously through the air, according to media reports.
One resident of northwest D.C. told ABC affiliate WJLA that an entire tree had slammed into one house. "Thank god nobody was home, especially if it was at night and somebody was up there sleeping, that could have been horrible. I don't want to think about it hitting my house that house is destroyed," Henry Davis told the station.
Thousands of people are still without power in both the district and the surrounding communities in Maryland and Virginia. Unfortunately, there have been at least two reported fatalities from the storm, including a six-year-old boy.
There is as yet no published monetary estimate of the value of home insurance claims likely to be made as a result of the storm, but the number has the potential to be quite high, experts say.
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