By DAMIAN GILETTO and JAMES MERRIWEATHER • The News Journal • May 12, 2008
A major storm that brought heavy rain and high winds overnight felled trees and knocked out power across the state, and forced boat evacuations of coastal residents along the Delaware Bay.
In Kent County, the Emergency Management Division of the Department of Public Safety posted a mandatory evacuation order for Kitts Hummock and Pickering Beach along the Delaware Bay. Bret Scott, a county spokesman, said that, as of 8 a.m., about 150 residents had been evacuated from Kitts Hummock and that most of the county’s coastal communities were experiencing flooding.
The Kitts Hummock Fraternal Order of Police Lodge and the Little Creek Fire Hall were pressed into service as emergency shelters, Scott said.
“We continue to monitor the flooding, and we have concerns about all low-lying areas of the county,” Scott said. “We have flooding in all our coastal communities. It’s just worse in some areas than others.”
Residents who need assistance should call 911.
The evacuations over a wide area included places like Woodland Beach and Bowers Beach, an official with the Kent County fire board said.
At Bowers Beach, the flow was more than two feet above the height of the pier.
In Dover, the St. Jones River jumped its banks and broke a record for flow on this day.
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