Why Should Delaware Care?
Tornadoes are particularly rare, especially in northern New Castle County where one touched down Thursday.
Lori Seaman said storm warnings have become so frequent that she barely gives them pause anymore — but she will now after a rare New Castle County tornado potentially struck her home Thursday.
Seaman, who lives in the Salem Woods community off Old Baltimore Pike in the Bear area, was at home when she noticed the skies getting dark. When she heard the wind begin to pick up and the rain begin the pelt her home, she figured the day’s storm had arrived.
“But then it just got louder and louder to the point where the whole house was shaking, and I just started hearing things banging around,” she recalled Thursday afternoon. “And this huge boom as the trees came down on top of the house. It was just pretty wild.”…