UPDATE: Residents of Riverside Farms in Great Mills reported a small tornado appears to have touched down in the front yards of several properties.

 A large gazebo that was on a concrete foundation, and complete with tinted windows, was ripped from its base and shredded across several lawns.

 A small utility trailer was picked up and dropped on a neighbor’s property. The house near where the trailer landed had half the porch ripped off.

 A couple homes in this area near Flat Iron Road also have siding and roof damage.

 A clear path of a tornado doesn’t appear obvious, but similar gazebo’s in neighboring yards stand untouched.

 See comments below for witness accounts.

 See slideshow below for pictures from the damage.

 

 

 

 

Storm Knocks Out Power, Clips Trees

 Power was out in parts of Lexington Park and elsewhere this morning for nearly six hours, after high winds blew into the area after midnight, snapping trees and knocking out power lines.

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 Rescue volunteers had a rush of incidents to respond to late last night, including a house on Prospect Hill Road in Wicomico Shores that had a tree come crashing into it shortly after midnight.

 Two women, ages 50 and 33, and a dog, were put out of the house by the damage and are being assisted by the American Red Cross Southern Maryland Chapter. There were no injuries.

 On Mount Chance Farm Lane in Clements, firefighters were called out to a reports of trees down on power lines and a possible barn down at 1:30 a.m.

 There were also reports of trees down on wires on Three Notch Road in Hermanville and on Gidding’s Street in Valley Lee, among other places.

 According to SMECO, 790 homes are still without power as of 7:53 a.m. this morning in St. Mary’s, Calvert, Charles and Prince Georges counties. Of that number, 157 are in St. Mary’s, 395 in Charles and 0 in Calvert.

 The highest rate of outages in Charles and St. Mary’s counties are in areas that include Waldorf, Newburg, Charlotte Hall, Hollywood, Lexington Park and the Valley Lee area.