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Welcome to Xpress Moving & Storage Moving Company ® We are professional apartment movers, home movers, office movers, and piano movers. Whether your move requires craning or hoisting, you need to move interstate, or you need to place items in storage, Xpress Moving & Storage is equipped to get the job done safely and efficiently. We are local and long distance moving company Maryland, Washington DC and Northern Virginia. Whether you are planning a local move in College Park MD areas or an interstate move to or from the College Park MD areas, we would welcome the opportunity to show you how positive an experience with a moving company can be. For a free moving estimate, please use the Estimate Form on this site or give us a call at 1-866-585-5490.
On September 24, 2001, a violent, multiple-vortex F3 tornado roared through the area. This storm moved at peak intensity through the University of Maryland, College Park campus, and then moved parallel to I-95 through the Laurel area, where F3 damage was also noted. The damage path from this storm was measured at 17.5 miles in length, and this tornado caused 2 deaths and 55 injuries, along with $101 million in property damage. The two deaths were sisters who died when their car was picked up and hurled over a building before being slammed to the ground; both young women were UMCP students. This tornado was part of the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., tornado outbreak of 2001, one of the most dramatic recent tornado events to directly affect the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. The first tornado of the outbreak was also the strongest – an F4 (see Fujita scale) tornado that left a 10-mile-long damage path through rural Culpeper and Fauquier Counties in Virginia. Weak (F1) tornadoes east of Warrenton, and just west of Dulles International Airport soon followed. A second supercell to the southeast spawned the family of tornadoes that moved through Washington. A first tornado (F0) was confirmed in the Quantico and Prince William Forest Park areas; this was soon followed by an F1 tornado that left a 15-mile-long path parallel to I-95 and I-395 through Franconia, western Alexandria and Arlington. This tornado dissipated near the west end of the Mall in Washington, D.C., and was followed by many reports of funnel clouds. This same storm produced the F3 tornado that roared through College Park.
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