A lightning strike on Thursday morning damaged the terra-cotta roof tiles atop a turret at the Golden Galleon building on the 1100 block of the Ocean City Boardwalk.
A Public Works crew cleans up the shattered roofing tiles on the Ocean City Boardwalk underneath the Golden Galleon turret where lightning struck on Thursday morning.
Ocean City Public Works crews were busy cleaning up shattered terra-cotta roofing tiles after lightning struck the Golden Galleon building on the Ocean City Boardwalk in an intense thunderstorm Thursday morning.
The circa 1929 building, home to the Air Circus kite and toy store and a 7th Street Surf Shop location, appeared to suffer no other damage from the lightning strike. It is located between 11th and 12th streets.
The boardwalk was almost empty at dawn as a line of storms moved across Ocean City between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Nobody was injured by the falling debris.
A Shoemaker Lumber employee assesses the depth of the water near the intersection of 12th Street and West Avenue on Thursday morning.
The storm also flooded streets as heavy rainfall coincided with a high tide that hampered the city's storm drain system.
Residents and visitors on low-lying blocks from the beach to the bay woke to find the interior of their cars threatened by the rising rainwater.
The round of morning storms had passed by 8 a.m., but the chance of more storms continues throughout the day.
Workers clean up debris from the Golden Galleon on Thursday morning
A Public Works crew cleans up the shattered roofing tiles on the Ocean City Boardwalk underneath the Golden Galleon turret where lightning struck on Thursday morning.
Ocean City Public Works crews were busy cleaning up shattered terra-cotta roofing tiles after lightning struck the Golden Galleon building on the Ocean City Boardwalk in an intense thunderstorm Thursday morning.
The circa 1929 building, home to the Air Circus kite and toy store and a 7th Street Surf Shop location, appeared to suffer no other damage from the lightning strike. It is located between 11th and 12th streets.
The boardwalk was almost empty at dawn as a line of storms moved across Ocean City between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Nobody was injured by the falling debris.
A Shoemaker Lumber employee assesses the depth of the water near the intersection of 12th Street and West Avenue on Thursday morning.
The storm also flooded streets as heavy rainfall coincided with a high tide that hampered the city's storm drain system.
Residents and visitors on low-lying blocks from the beach to the bay woke to find the interior of their cars threatened by the rising rainwater.
The round of morning storms had passed by 8 a.m., but the chance of more storms continues throughout the day.
