![]() Dam Neck has 3.2 miles of some of the most beautiful beach front in Virginia and covers over 1,100 acres of highlands, marshes, coastal beaches and sand dunes. ![]() Another 36 homes sustained major damage that made them unlivable, while "many more" had significant damage, the city said.Dam Neck is located on the Atlantic coast, five miles south of the downtown resort of Virginia Beach. The tornado caused an estimated $15 million in residential damage, with nine homes destroyed, the city said in a Monday afternoon news release. Virginia Beach Director of Emergency Management David Topczynski said Monday that the city got lucky because the storm blew in Sunday during a music festival, where an emergency operation center was already set up, allowing for a swift response. "I would tell people to heed those alerts." "I heard the freight-train sound, and it sounded like it was going right over the house," Price said. He dove into the closet below his first-floor stairwell, crouching into a fetal position under his winter coats. I checked it again and it says, 'Immediate danger. ![]() Price, 73, was at his stove making tacos Sunday when his phone started to buzz with severe weather alerts. It's the first tornado to be rated that high, according to NOAA records, with wind gusts exceeding those of the largest hurricanes recorded around the city.Ī.T. The National Weather Service's Wakefield, Virginia, office confirmed Monday morning that the tornado was rated at EF-3, with wind estimates of 140 mph (225 km/h) to 150 mph (240 km/h). The Virginia Beach tornado damaged at least 100 buildings, tearing through them with wind speeds as high as 150 mph (240 km/h), officials assessing the wreckage and weather data said Monday. Rainfall approaching 5 inches (13 centimetres) also led to flood warnings on several rivers in parts of southern Maine. Wind gusts of up to 70 mph (115 km/h) were reported Sunday near Matinicus Island, about 20 miles offshore, and up to 65 mph (100 km/h) onshore in Bath, where Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works has numerous cranes. In Maine, heavy rain and powerful wind gusts knocked out power for more than 50,000 homes and businesses on Monday morning. But the National Park Service said the Merced River did not rise as much as expected and the valley reopened on Monday. Fears of flooding shut down of parts of Yosemite Valley over the weekend. In California, a late-season weather system brought showers and the possibility of high-elevation snow in the Sierra Nevada through the week. The snow won't help the area's ski resorts, which had already closed for the season. West Virginia's eastern mountains could see up to 8 inches (20 centimetres) of snow Tuesday morning as a rare May winter storm moves through, forecasters said. And high water on the Mississippi River is testing flood defences in Iowa and Illinois as the river crests in the area Monday. The National Weather Service confirmed a Saturday tornado in Florida. "God took care of us."Įlsewhere, officials were assessing damage Monday in West Virginia, Maine, Florida and California. She hadn't experienced a tornado that strong in the 19 years she had lived there. "And now one side of the house is leaning." "Then all the windows blew out in the kitchen and sucked everything out of the kitchen and a tree fell through the roof," Camper said. The family, including Camper's grandchildren, aged 2 years and 5 weeks, as well as two dogs, ran into a stairwell - the only place without windows. She and her visiting daughter looked out the window and saw the trees bending in the wind and ran. "It just happened suddenly," Lori Camper said. One family escaped injuries by reacting to a weather alert that came less than a minute before the tornado hit. In Virginia Beach, residents credited a cellphone warning system for helping them take shelter in time. Climate Barometer newsletter: Sign up to keep your finger on the climate pulse.Monday as officials took stock of unrelated tornadoes and flooding damage from over the weekend, stretching from Florida to Maine. Wreckage from destructive weather dotted the U.S. Several people described taking cover under stairwells most lack basements because the water table is so high. No one was reported injured, despite few residents being prepared for tornadoes. It was the most powerful tornado ever to hit Virginia Beach, Virginia, officials confirmed Monday. A rare and powerful tornado sent residents of a coastal city in Virginia fleeing for cover over the weekend as it peeled roofs from buildings and pushed homes from their foundations.
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