Snowplows clear more than a foot of hail in Parkside
CBS Philadelphia's report shows rushing water, ice-covered streets and residents struggling to recall anything like it.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 78,204 views a day, 48 times a normal first day on this channel (1,626).
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Kerri Corrado stands beside a mound that looks like the aftermath of a snowstorm. But the ice piled along Parkside's streets is hail, deposited so quickly that residents needed shovels and snowplows to clear it.
CBS Philadelphia's report from the Delaware County borough reached about 78,000 views in its first day, far beyond the channel's usual audience for a Short. The pictures explain the attention: cellphone footage shows hail and rain turning residential streets into rushing streams, followed by plows pushing the accumulation into large heaps.
"The hail fell very fast in a short amount of time, and there was a lot of it," Corrado says. A resident who has lived in Parkside for years tells her she cannot remember anything comparable. Jamar Smith, a barber at Chester's Finest Barbershop, describes the storm arriving during his workday: "It was scary to see."
The broadcast also reports a separate danger across the state line. Anchor Ukee Washington says the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in New Castle County, Delaware. In Parkside, the report returns to the unusual cleanup: equipment associated with winter weather clearing streets after a hailstorm.
A borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with 2,321 residents as of the 2020 census.
More on Wikipedia ›A county in southeastern Pennsylvania, also known locally as Delco.
More on Wikipedia ›The US federal agency responsible for weather forecasts and hazardous-weather warnings to help protect the public.
More on Wikipedia ›Delaware's northernmost and most populous county, part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Its county seat is Wilmington.
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- Channel
- CBS Philadelphia
- Subscribers
- 432,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,242,588
- Channel views, pace per day
- 442,277 (on a normal day: 266,980)
- Video published
- November 13, 2026
- Video views so far
- 78,117 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 78,204
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The hail report drew an unusually large first-day audience for a CBS Philadelphia Short, with comments also well above its usual level.
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In which state is Parkside, the borough shown in the hail report?
Parkside is in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, not the neighboring state of Delaware.


