Community Corner

Remembering the 2012 Derecho

The storm uprooted trees and caused power outages for days.

Where were you two years ago?

If you were in Virginia, Maryland or Washington, D.C., odds are you were in the dark.

And odds are even better that you added a new word to your vocabulary: "Derecho."

Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of the storm that gave the region a steamy, soggy beat down, which left tens of thousands of people without power for days.

Here's what people have been saying two years later.




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