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TORNADO HITS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS!

purple_chick79purple_chick79 Posts: 570
edited June 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
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That was, by far, one of the scariest days of my life. My mom doesn't live far from the pictures of the funnel cloud. Springfield is literally 5 minutes from where I live. Towns were destroyed, it went on for hours and hours, one tornado after another.

This is something we don't see a lot of here, even though it's not unheard of.

Scary fucking shit.
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  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,963
    Hope you and your loved ones are all well.

    Scary freakin' weather in the States this year :cry:
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  • purple_chick79purple_chick79 Posts: 570
    Mother Nature is pissed.

    4 confirmed dead...could have been worse.

    We had 10 minutes of a warning to take cover.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    edited June 2011
    I live in Norwood. By the time it got to us the tornado action was done (but they had us on full alert). But MAN was that some intense lightning. There was a stretch of 20 minutes right around 9:30 where I swear the sky was continually lit by lightning.
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Around 7pm it resembled midnight outside. Thankfully no funnel clouds around us.
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,908
    Fifthelement wrote:
    Hope you and your loved ones are all well.

    Scary freakin' weather in the States this year :cry:

    We all better get used to it. It's not going away for a long time.
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    I guess Mother Nature decided to spread around a little. Yikes. Hope everyone is OK.
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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    My parents were heading up to Mass yesterday for a family funeral, luckily they were going east toward Lowell.

    Scary stuff indeed.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
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    where's unlost
    81 is now off the air

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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    She's eastern Mass 81, she should be fine.

    She's actually probably as far east in Mass as you can go.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    Purple, what about Max? Is he ok?

    My sister went to college in Springfield. It's beautiful there. But I think all of New England is beautiful. I'm a little biased that way :D
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Crazy stuff last night. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones last night.
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  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    drove right through that last night...no damage to my house, but man there are a ton of trees down. typical tornado stuff i guess...houses damaged, cars flipped, debris everywhere...4 people is 4 too many, but man it could have been a lot worse.
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  • Release MeRelease Me Posts: 342
    lots of hail and rain at my house.
    I work in Worcester and they told people to get on the ground floor of our building at one point.
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    We had quite a lightning display here just north of Boston. It was just constant lightning for an hour or so.

    edit: That video is insane too. Wow.
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  • ChrissybChrissyb Posts: 122
    I live in the Eastern part of the State, the lightning was insane and hardly any thunder.. We caught a few minutes of it on tape
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  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    how very scary for everybody!

    chrissyb-crazy video!
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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    Ok, I just got off the phone with my dad. He said they went through Sturbridge 10 minutes before the tornado hit. I had no idea they were that close to the action. He said, they looked in the rearview mirror and the whole sky was black behind them.

    Thank you God for sparing my elderly parents.

    I'm shaking over here, just thinking about it.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • purple_chick79purple_chick79 Posts: 570
    Pure....all are well...the funnel cloud was literally right across the street from them.

    I'm glad your parents are ok :)

    I'm still shaken by the whole thing. I never thought I'd see the day in New England where a twister caused that much damage.

    I've seen so many people on facebook posting pics...you'd think we were in the mid west
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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    purple_chick79 wrote:
    Pure....all are well...the funnel cloud was literally right across the street from them.

    I'm glad your parents are ok :)

    I'm still shaken by the whole thing. I never thought I'd see the day in New England where a twister caused that much damage.

    I've seen so many people on facebook posting pics...you'd think we were in the mid west


    so very glad to hear the purple and brother families are doing ok. I watched the video of the twister forming in CT and as it went over the river it was literally sucking the water up from the river - THE RIVER!! Do you know how powerful that has to be?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fwkb-fzPcA

    it's enough to make you want to crawl up in a corner and never move again. :lol:
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  • purple_chick79purple_chick79 Posts: 570
    If you have facebook, I'm on there...I've posted a lot of things from the storm.

    I live about 5 minutes from where that tornado hit.

    I was at work, which is the next town away from Monson, where it hit badly. We had a tornado code over the intercom "ALL PATIENTS TO THE BATHROOMS NOW!!!" All my years I've never heard that.

    The cleanup will take a while.

    What I can't understand is that when things like this happen in the mid-west, it's all you hear about for days and days. The tornado's that hit us are nothing like when the mid-west gets pounded, but this is so rare here, we have almost no warning system...seriously, 10 minutes and here it was. There were watches all day but no one takes them seriously.
    Opinions are like assholes, everyones got one.

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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,815
    I know, but I don't think anyone that has any type of warning system will ever take them lightly again, not after this tornado season.

    I don't think there is any kind of warning here in the city, but there was a small tornado not too far from here a few weeks ago, but nothing like the extent of the ones in the mid-west or even in Mass.

    It's just freaky, freaky, freaky scary stuff.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • weekapaug19weekapaug19 Posts: 2,293
    I was on the south end bridge as this crossed the memorial bridge http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj1xd1 ... -1-11_news

    it was insane, hailing so hard I couldn't see about 15 feet or so in front of my car. The damage on main st, and then up on rifle st to springfield college is crazy, it's like a war zone down here.
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I'm glad that you're safe (and Pureandeasy's parents!)

    from that last video i just watched, did it look like it came up out of a river?
    did anyone hear what strength on the Fugita scale it was? where I live, we only get F0 to F1 tornadoes.
    I think the alabama one was F4.
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