Severe thunderstorms passed through parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware Sunday afternoon into the evening.
The storms ranged from strong to severe and hit our region between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The storms started drying up in the city as we headed into the evening and overnight hours.
Some areas like Northeast Philadelphia experienced damaging winds which lead to power outages.
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At one point wind speeds got up to 50mph and knocked over a massive tree that fell on a man's home.
Over 400 flights were delayed at the Philadelphia International Airport and more than 50 others were cancelled due to the weather.
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As of Monday afternoon, there were 32 cancellations and 155 delays at the airport, mostly for flights coming in.
Many travelers expressed how they had to spend a thousand dollars or more to get home and work around the travel delays to make it home.
"It's been a real pain. We're missing work. We didn't take work off," Ellie Johnson of Fargo, North Dakota, told NBC10. "We're not prepared for this. Yeah, it's been a big mess."
Johnson, who was visiting New York with her family, told NBC10 their flight home to North Dakota was cancelled out of LaGuardia Airport in Queens Monday morning. Their only option was to take an Amtrak train from New York to Philadelphia, buy new flights to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then rent a car to drive four hours to get home. In all, she said the hassle cost her and her family more than $2,000.
"A lot of extra leg work. Extra money. It's been a pain," she said.
Charlie Leocha, the president of Travelers United and an expert in travelers' rights, told NBC10 that in the event of a weather-related cancellation, an airline doesn't need to refund your flight or compensate you for hotels and rental cars.
"The airline does not have to compensate you because your delay has been caused by the hurricane," he said. "It's been caused by things which are outside of the airline's control."
The Department of Transportation is currently working to pass a law that would force airlines to automatically reimburse people in non-weather situations if their flight was delayed more than three hours. According to Leocha, there's no timeline for when the new law will go into effect.
At about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Amtrak alerted people that there was flooding on the tracks that caused service between Philadelphia 30th Street Station and New York Penn Station to be disrupted. Service was restored by 10:30 p.m.
Route 1 northbound was shut down just north of the Indian River Inlet Bridge between Bethany and Dewey beaches Sunday into Monday. The ocean water breached the dunes and spilled onto the roadway.
As of Monday around 2 p.m., a right lane on Route 1 northbound remained closed at the Indian River due to the flooding.
A flood watch was issued for most of our area.
Temperatures were in the 80s for the afternoon allowing plenty of moisture in the air. That coupled with the heavy rain led to one to three inches of precipitation and over four inches of rain.
The rain cleared overnight but more storms are expected to hit the Philly region on Monday between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Strong storms are possible with wind gusts up to 65 mph and localized flooding.
After Monday’s storms, conditions will clear for the rest of the week with comfortable temperatures and plenty of sunshine.
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