2024-01-10 05:03:45
A Radnor School District bus turns onto Bryn Mawr Avenue from Sproul Road in Radnor Township on Tuesday afternoon as heavy rains moved over the region. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)
The number of PECO customers without power in Delaware County has spiraled to nearly 31,000 shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, out of a total of 118,000 customers in the southeast Pennsylvania service area.
Chester County accounted for about 64,000 of the 118,000. The Delaware County number is 13% of county residents. In Chester County, it’s 30% of residents.
Scenes from Delaware County on Tuesday night. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Meanwhile, a flood warning remained in effect for Delaware County through midnight by the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
The warning reads in part: Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain has fallen.
• Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area.
• Some locations that may experience flooding include Philadelphia, Trenton, Camden, Gloucester City, Bensalem, Ewing, Norristown, Chester, Willingboro, Phoenixville,
Lansdale and West Norriton.
Residents are advised:
• Turn around…don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
• Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.
• Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law enforcement and request they pass this information to the National Weather Service when you can do so safely.
At 5 p.m., the count of outages in Delaware County was about 100.
Scenes from Delaware County on Tuesday night. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Emergency crews and fire police are crisscrossing the county for crashes, wires down, blown transformers, limbs down, limbs on houses, traffic lights out, flooded roads, fire alarms and medical calls. There was a dispatch for a tree down on a vehicle on Baltimore Pike at Scott Road in Concord Township with injuries about 6 p.m. It turned out to be no entrapment and no injuries but further details were not yet available.
The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, new Jersey, has issued a flood watch for the county through Wednesday at 6 p.m. A coastal flood watch is in effect within that range from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 4 a.m. Wednesday. Plus, there’s a wind advisory set for 5 p.m. today until 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Rainfall totals for Tuesday in Delaware County shortly after 9:30 p.m. were Saint Davids, 3.54 inches; Thornton, 2.92; Media, 2.55; Swarthmore, 2.15; Delaware County emergency services site, 1.90; with Philadelphia International Airport way behind at 1.44.
With the saturated grounds, more rain and wind, comes the increase in potential for the toppling of trees, knocking down of limbs and widespread power outages.
Traffic moves along Sproul Road in Radnor on Tuesday afternoon as heavy rains moved over the region. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)
Expect a surge in temperature to the mid-50s today with the heaviest rain in the evening and late night, according to AccuWeather. Then windy and mild conditions are likely into early Wednesday with the temperature bottoming out in the mid-40s.
Then the forecast is for breezy and mild conditions Wednesday with a high near 50 degrees, with temperatures falling after dark and clearing skies.
Philadelphia records for Jan. 9 are 1.54 inches of precipitation in 1936. The temperature records — highest high and highest low — are 69 and 53 degrees, respectively, from 1930.
The precipitation record for the 10th is 1.28 inches from 1881. The temperature records are 65 and 50 degrees, respectively, from 2016 and 1935.
The precipitation records are potentially in jeopardy but likely not the temperature records.
The Borough of Darby, which often sees flooding, has declared a state of emergency.
Officials posted a notice on social media asking for residents to stay alert.
With an expected 2 inches to 3 inches of rain and anticipated wind gusts of 20 to 30 mph, the borough is asking residents to take the storm seriously and prepare accordingly.
In mid-December a number of Darby residents were forced to evacuate in the area of Main Street and MacDade Boulevard as the Darby Creek flooded.
That flooding closed MacDade in the area of Chester Pike and Springfield Road for much of the day.
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