Heavy hail piles up like snow in Parkside Borough, Pennsylvania
No, it's not snow! Massive piles of hail blanketed parts of Parkside Borough in Delaware County on Thursday.
The Action Cam was along a stretch of Route 352 just before 5 p.m., where crews were shoveling out after a heavy hailstorm.
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We have more breaking storm coverage for you right now,
this time from Delaware County.
And a sight we do not often see around here,
Parkside Borough buried in hail today.
Just extraordinary.
Action News reporter Caroline Goggin live there.
And Caroline, it looks like there's just been a snowstorm there.
Yeah, Brian and Sarah.
This is one of those sites you have to see in person to believe.
Check this out. It looks like there's about three feet of snow here
in the borough of Parkside. This though, this is just pellets of hail.
And right now these crews are out right now working
to clear all of this. We were told about this.
We were headed here to Parkside and on our way, Brian and Sarah,
we saw driveway after driveway covered in hail.
Parking lots covered in hail as this entire area is right now.
I'm told that along the stretch of Route 352,
when the height of the storm happened this afternoon
and this hail fell, about two cars, I think around two cars got stuck.
on this stretch of road they actually had
to shut it down it's closed down right now because they
thought that it was dangerous
so much hail was on the ground they brought in these emergency crews
to clear this entire area but these aren't
the only people that are out with shovels in this area
of Delaware County right now I've seen
so many people out in their driveways at this point trying
to clear all of this hail this is something we really don't see
and i was talking to a couple of
the emergency crews here in Delaware County they tell me
in their decades of service in this area
area. They have never ever
We've never seen something like this before, so truly just
an incredible sight out here right now as the cleanup is now underway.
The good news is everyone's okay. Just kind of a minor detour
at this point for anyone traveling along the stretch of Route 352
this afternoon as the cleanup for all of this hail in this area.
continues. That's the latest live in the borough of Parkside.
I'm Caroline Goggin, Channel 6
Action News. We are gobsmacked by that.
We were just asking our meteorologists if they've ever
seen anything like that in this area.
They said absolutely not. You have to go out west typically,
Colorado, Utah, to see something even closer.
Even then, I don't think it's hail. I think it's
snowfall. This is just an unbelievable scene.
Caroline, real quick, I know there's piles of
it that they've been putting there, but if you
zoom out into the distance, what does it look
like where they've not pushed those piles?
We're talking several inches of that.
Yeah, it definitely is several inches. I mean, when you do pile it up,
we're talking about three to four feet is what I would estimate.
But yeah, it's several inches of hail at least.
I mean, you're walking along the ground too,
and you can tell there's kind of this sheen that is left behind.
It looks like we did have a snowstorm come through and there's still
a sheet of ice on the ground at this point. But a lot of these crews,
some of the guys are out here and they're in t-shirts,
but I've seen a lot of people out here in their parkas right now.
As if they are doing some kind of snowstorm cleanup.
So, I mean, you guys said it.
I have never seen anything like this before.
Worked in New England for eight years.
This is wild.
I can't wait for you to talk to people
who were there as this was happening to see what this was like.
Unbelievable.
We'll also bet you're wishing you wore some boots today.
But who could have seen this coming?
Caroline, thanks.