Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Extensive damage strewn across Maryland after thunderstorms

NOT ONE BUT TWO TREES FELL ON TOP OF THIS BUILDING.

THEY ARE CLEANING UP AT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX ON OAK GREEN

CIRCLE IN ELLICOTT CITY THURSDAY AFTER WEDNESDAY NIGHTS STORM

BROUGHT DOWN TO HUGH TREES, DISPLACING 12 RESIDENTS.

-- BROUGHT DOWN TO HUGE TREES, DISPLACING 12 RESIDENTS.

>> WE ARE PULLING THE TREE OUT OF THE TOWNHOUSE PIECE BY PIECE.

>> RESIDENTS WE SPOKE WITH SAID AS THE STORM PASSED OVERHEAD IT

GOT MORE AND MORE FRIGHTENING.

>> EVERYTHING SEEMED FIND -- FINE BUT THE SKY BECAME CHAP

BLACK IN THE RAIN POURED DOWN.

THE TREES ARE FLYING AROUND LIKE RAG DOLLS.

IT WAS PRETTY UNSETTLING, ACTUALLY.

>> BUT THIS WASNT THE ONLY DAMAGE.

IN MAPLE LAWN ALSO IN HOWA COUNTY LIGHTNING STRUCK THIS

HOME ON THE 11,000 BLOCK OF HOLSTEIN STREET, HEAVY SMOKE

COULD BE SEEN COMING FROM THE ROOF FIREFIGHTERS WERE ABLE TO

, GET IT UNDER CONTROL IN ABOUT AN HOUR.

TOTAL DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT A MILLION DOLLARS.

>> A HOUSE WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND THAT WAS CONFIRMED

BY THE OFFICE OF THE FIRE MARSHAL.

THEY CALLED 911 AND ARE -- ARE UNITS THERE WERE WITHIN MINUTES.

>> IN HARFORD COUNTY THIS HOME IN THE 2000 BLOCK OF NOBLES MILL

ROAD IN DARLINGTON WAS HIT BY LIGHTNING AS WELL IT TOOK 40

FIRE FIGHTERS TO PUT IT OUT.

AND IN CARROLL COUNTY A NUMBER OF LARGE TREES WERE BROUGHT DOWN

LIKE HERE IN TANEYTOWN.

FIRE OFFICIALS HAD THIS TO SAY WHEN IT COMES TO LIGHTNING OR IF

A TREE HITS YOUR HOME CLICK VEKIC -- >> EVACUATED SOON

AS POSSIBLE.

SEEK SAFETY.

>> THANKFULLY, ACCORDING TO EMERGENCY PERSONNEL IN A NUMBER

OF DIFFERENT COUNSELEES WHERE WE SAW DAMAGE, NO REPORTS OF ANY

SERIOUS INJURIES OR DEATHS.