"On this day 13 years ago (June 29, 2012), a ferocious derecho ripped across DC area w/ hurricane-force winds ..."

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⚡ Remember this?
On this day 13 years ago (June 29, 2012), a ferocious derecho ripped across DC area w/ hurricane-force winds, leaving widespread damage.
📹 Relive the storm in this gripping footage from
@dcstormchaser.bsky.social who captured it barreling into DC:

Jefferson's Derecho
YouTube video by Kevin Ambrose
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM

âš¡ Remember this?
On this day 13 years ago (June 29, 2012), a ferocious derecho ripped across DC area w/ hurricane-force winds, leaving widespread damage.
📹 Relive the storm in this gripping footage from
@dcstormchaser.bsky.social who captured it barreling into DC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMI...

— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T12:40:02.817Z

[nilram]

1. My partner was calling me, on the other side of the country,

To try and help him locate ice. Was pretty crazy. No power for about 2 weeks at their place.

[IronLionZion]

2. I remember having friends stay over because they lost power

it was nuts. I was in downtown Silver Spring at the time and many surrounding neighborhoods lost power. Downtown Bethesda lost power. The more woodsy areas lost power from downed trees. Baltimore neighborhoods lost power.

I was trying to reschedule something because an office in Bethesda had no power for 7 days. The people I was talking to were in another country and they refused to believe that an American city would lost power for any amount of time. Their attitude was "you Americans have no idea what losing power even means, fool".