Footage of Severe storm hit Washington DC – Metro area, US

Footage of Severe storm hit Washington DC – Metro area, US #washington #washingtondc #virginia #storm #tornado #strongwind #usa #usanews #us #hurricane #today Severe storms on Saturday produced wind gusts of hurricane force around the District of Columbia, downing trees and leading to widespread power outages. First responders were busy in the first hours after the storm responding to calls of trees on top of homes and cars and called the damage in some neighborhoods "significant." Videos and photos from K Street in the heart of the district to neighborhoods in the sprawling suburbs of Maryland and Virginia showed nearly the same scenes – uprooted trees and snapped limbs nearly everywhere you turned. The National Weather Service said wind gusts with storms that tore through the nation's capital were estimated to have topped 80 mph and were accompanied by torrential rainfall and frequent lightning. There were numerous reports of fallen trees and branches. Several roads remained blocked by trees as of Sunday morning. A tree fell on an apartment building in the 1200 block of Queen Street NE in D.C. special team are checking for structural damage and evacuating residents. Powerful storms cause more than 200,000 customers without power in D.C., Maryland and Virginia at one point. As of about 8 a.m. Sunday, Pepco was reporting more than 17,000 customers were still without power. Dominion was reporting almost 30,000 customers still in the dark.