This hardly gives you a taste of the damage and wreckage done in Colonial Beach. They are RIGHT on the Potomac River with homes and businesses built so close to/on the river bank. Rip-rap constructed with huge boulders was torn apart, the rocks strewn across the street and into peoples yards. Hundred-year-old trees uprooted and down on homes, down between homes (but through the walls), water rushing in to the first floor of homes and tearing out walls. Truly horrific it was.