Annapolis Family Seeks Refuge in Ocean City - WMDT 47 News - Delmarva's Choice

OCEAN CITY, Md. - Thousands of homes are out of power after severe thunderstorms rocked the Mid-Atlantic - The D.C. metropolitan area, one of the hardest hit.

"We had seen a house not far from us - maybe four or five away that had been crushed by a tree, and they had just saved their 4-year-old and their newborn," said Todd Cameron of Annapolis, Md.

Panic was setting in. "I couldn't find an open gas station, any stores that had power, so the situation was getting pretty desperate on the roads. People just don't treat those intersections without working lights as 4-way stops - so it became dangerous," said Cameron.

Cameron and his family decided to find refuge across the bridge. "I decided I'll try to go over to Kent Island - see if they had anything. All of their stores, all of their gas stations, all of their shops were up and running. That's when I realized that the ferocity of the storm had not come across the bay. So I called my wife and said 'we're going to go across, get a hotel room and go to the beach.'"

With extreme heat conditions, they hope for a quick turn around. "I do want to see a response - with 90, 95, 100 degree temperatures, there cannot be a week long wait to get power back on. We're just going to keep our fingers crossed when we go back across the bridge," said Cameron.