Police reports and road crew assessments indicate that the tornado, which was first tracked in the area of Bradshaw Road, ripped through farmland and mostly open spaces, touching only some houses along the way. Plumstead Police Chief David Mettin said the damage from the storm there spanned about a half a mile in the township. By Saturday morning, power had been restored to all but about 65 customers, mostly in Bensalem. Nearly 1,000 PECO customers, mostly in Bensalem, Lower Southampton and Solebury, were still without power Friday morning. Harran said Friday dozens of homes were damaged in Bensalem and authorities identified one person injured at Penn Valley Terrace, and another injured at a Metropolitan Drive business. The shelter remained open until Friday evening, when power was restored and displaced residents made other arrangements, officials said. Officials said a family of four and some other individuals spent Thursday night there. The Red Cross opened a shelter at Thursday and Friday at Neshaminy High School on Old Lincoln Highway for those forced from their homes. They would later go door to door checking on residents and assessing damage. First responders had to remove downed trees that blocked the main entrance to the park. Her suspicious were confirmed with one look around her neighborhood.ĭebris was everywhere Thursday night, including a set of stairs, roof shingles, corrugated metal, broken glass, broken dishes and broken tree branches. "I thought I was going to be Dorothy," Cartin said. I knew it," said Cindy Cartin of the Penn Valley Terrace mobile home park. "It was here." "I heard rumbling and it was getting closer and closer. Many at the center of the storms didn't need official confirmation. She dove under a desk and had to be pulled out of the building. “I heard the alarm on my phone and it was seconds later that we felt something happening to the building,” said Szupka. Joanne Szupka, of Willow Grove, was inside the Volvo dealership off Street Road when the building collapsed. "I have been doing this for 34 years, I haven't seen that sort of devastation from a storm," he said hours after touchdown. Many would echo the same sentiments in the days to come. Harran, a police veteran who has seen some of the worst times in Bucks, would later put it in perspective.
#Like a storm it cuts a path windows#
"A tornado just destroyed our showroom," a man says, as the group emerges some 45 seconds later to blown-out windows and water-logged floors, stepping through glass and debris as they get their initial look at the damage. Video from inside one of the dealership buildings shows employees and others watching the storm barrel into the showroom in disbelief and moving into a bathroom as horizontal rain and whipping wind batters the glass. It looked like a bomb went off," said Bensalem Public Safety Director Fred Harran.
#Like a storm it cuts a path tv#
"This was a devastating tornado that came through the (dealership) area, looked like a TV show.
Four of the six people hurt were at Faulkner when the storm hit. The Faulkner Automotive Group, with several dealerships lining Street Road at Old Lincoln Highway in Bensalem, suffered major losses. The NWS had yet to release details on the Bensalem storm Friday night.īy far, the powerful EF3, the first in Pennsylvania since 2004, caused the most damage for Bucks County. and continued for 15 minutes, traveling 6.4 miles, according to the NWS. The New Hope to New Jersey tornado began at 5:59 p.m. and was over five minutes later, the NWS said Saturday. By comparison, the Plumstead tornado traveled for 2.6 miles and 70 yards wide.
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