Real weird weather!!

Well late last year I said that I wanted it to snow in Philly and yes it did, snowed 7 inches. Well lately the whole family was ready to set up our Direct TV satellite dish, we have tried multiple times for about 3 weeks and finally got it to work all by ourselves which is cool! Today we got it done and to me its an accomplishment and we all learn some new things, but todays weather wasn't really normal, it had rained since yesterday afternoon all till today afternoon. A full 24 hour of rain,and some places in Philadelphia has been flooding, especially the places near the Delaware river. The river seems to be cresting at a rapid rate and people are starting to evacuate out of the area but while Philadelphia is having some heavy rain, other places like northwest Pennsylvania are having heavy snow. Texas itself, which has warm winters instead Well back to our accomplishment of setting up the satellite dish, right after we finished, we decided to put the ladder back onto our van, and 1 hour earlier the weather was fine, the rain had ended but when we got back out it had started again. My dad and I put the ladder onto the van and in order to do that we had to climb onto the roof of the van and tie the rope around the ladder. Right at that moment I felt some strong wind coming , it came none stop for 1 minute and then a gale force wind came along with it nearly knocking me down, and then trashes around us were flying around, even a detergent container went flying in mid air like a missile hitting and bouncing off of walls and hitting a door which made a banging sound that knock the barred door backward. This kind of wind is the strongest gale force wind I've seen in a long time.