SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. - In Sussex County, people are witnessing what many call "the calm after the storm" following the passage of Tropical Storm Ophelia on Saturday.
While visiting from Pennsylvania, Richard Allen encountered significant flooding on Reed Avenue in Dewey Beach.
"It was pretty incredible because it was slow rising, but it continued to rise, and as the tide changed, it came up even further," Allen said. "The area over here where we're parked, it was just gravel, and then it continued to rise... I think in the middle of the road here was probably about by my legs, about a foot and a half, almost two feet deep."
Despite the recent storm, some visitors, like James Schneider from Maryland, decided to go out and enjoy the beach.
"We wanted to get them out, especially after yesterday just being inside and letting them be active and so forth, and today, the water's actually pretty warm," Schneider said. "The water is very rough, but letting them go in a couple of feet isn't going to hurt anything."
The flooding created difficulties for people in our area.
"All the cars that are parked here now, we had to park way up by the end, by that blue truck right far away by Route 1, and then... to get out, we had to walk down the middle of the road through the water to get to our cars," Dave Werth, also from Pennsylvania, said.
According to Allen, the town went to put flood barriers on Reed Avenue.
"The local people who are here a lot, they kind of warned us about it, and they said how high it would get, and we doubted them, but it was true. It all happened," Werth said.
Today was a different scenario for our coastal communities now that the storm has passed.