'You wouldn't believe it': Hailstorm piles up like snow in Pennsylvania

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No, it's not snow! Massive piles of hail blanketed parts of Parkside Borough in Delaware County on Thursday.
"If you didn't see it with your own eyes, you wouldn't believe it," said Edward Beebe, who serves as the deputy director of Delaware County Emergency Services.
The Action Cam was along a stretch of Route 352 by Garrison Road just before 5 p.m., where crews were shoveling out after a heavy hailstorm.
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And this one right here, this isn't snow, this is also massive piles
of hail that blanketed parts of Delaware County today.
Crews with snow plows came out to try to clear those roads here after
a large amount of hail came down this afternoon.
Let's get right over to Action News reporter Caroline Goggin,
who joins us live from Parkside Borough with this unusual sight.
Caroline.
Yeah, Christy here in Delaware County.
They dealt with flooding today. They dealt with water rescues.
They did not expect to see this. Check this out.
These pellets of hail coating the ground here in Parkside tonight.
They piled and piled and piled up and just check out
this massive pile that is sitting here tonight along Route 352.
This is the talk of the town right now. People are stunned.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes when you see it,
like, you wouldn't believe it.
This may look like video from last winter's archives.
But this was taken this afternoon.
All of that white stuff the crews were busy clearing is hail.
Buckets of it.
Piles of hail.
Eight feet high on the corners in Delaware County.
It fell during the height of the storm in Parkside, Delaware County.
Just check out this video from the Razor's Edge Barbershop.
You can see the hail falling, some sticking,
and most of it running down Route 352.
Running like a river down the street.
I don't know whether to go kayaking or sledding.
From Joe Bonsall's barbershop, all the hail went down the hill,
landing near Garrison and Upland Roads.
The bottom of the hill, all the snow
and the water ran down by the school. It shut everything down.
Even a couple cars got stuck in the mess.
When they were moved out, PennDOT crews moved in, working to clear
the several inches of hail from this stretch of Route 352.
While they did that, neighbors like Steve Herron grabbed a shovel to
to clear his driveway.
How crazy is it to be shoveling hail in here?
Yeah.
Have you done that before?
No, not to this degree.
You know, I've wiped it off the cars and stuff before,
but yeah, it's pretty crazy.
When the hail was cleared,
PennDOT salted and went on their way.
Then neighbors came out to capture this sight.
It's one that may be talked about for years to come.
In my 42 years of emergency services for Delaware County,
I've seen a lot of things.
Hurricanes, blizzards, snowstorms, floods.
I never in my life have seen anything like this
All right, back out here live tonight in Parkside, Delaware County.
This really feels like a winter wonderland.
Feels like we're reporting on the aftermath
of a snowstorm, not a hailstorm.
Now, I will say what's really interesting
about all of this is that if you go about
a half a mile up the road in either direction along Route 352,
this is not the scene.
So this hail really appeared to be isolated
to this stretch of Parkside.
A piece of good news to report.
There's two people in their cars
who got stuck along this stretch earlier today.
We are told that they are okay.
Cleanup has been done. The road has been salted.
Traffic is moving along just fine now.
Just a very interesting sight to see.
That's the latest live in Parkside, Delaware County tonight.
I'm Caroline Goggin for Action News at 10 on PHL 17. Great.
Caroline, just a wacky scene. And every time we see your live reports,
we're just in awe of the images that we see behind you.
Great reporting tonight. Thank you, Caroline.
