Tornadoes back east too

Not as bad as those in the belts, but a twister hit Springfield Mass. a couple hours ago, hit the nieghborhood with the basketball hall of fame, and up along the Springfield armory museum. The twisters started on a big plain where the air guard base is to the west. No reported deaths yet, but the twister went up the river, over a bridge, and traffic cameras seem to show less cars when they went back on- but the road was blocked, an 18 wheeler on its side for the last couple hours, I would think the driver is in bad shape or it would have got bulldozed to the side by now. The cells are headed east, to worcester and Providence soon.it will be a long night tonight for lots of people that just aren't used to this sort of thing. Last big one in this county was 1979, most folks weren't even born back then.....my place got hit by a 'straight line wind shear?' one year one week ago. peanuts compare this these things...

Hope all the other members in that are are safe as well. I saw that they had tornado warnings up your way on the news this evening.

Have my mother and some siblings in the greater Springfield area.Thankfully they are all ok.I remember the one in 1979.We had recently moved to Agawam.That one fizzled over Suffield,CT if I remember correctly.

Vito

Ya crazy weather all over the place. Guess we can blame Al Gore for it or maybe the guy we have in office. Ya just kidding but hey we have to blame some one. LOL Just goes to show that the weather will do what it wants where it wants when it wants and we have to live with what it does. Hope all is well with you and your family. I have lived most of my life in tornado alley but beginning to think that the alley has gotten wider

Hey Vito- aren't you a fergie guy? You in Conn now? Click my email and send me a message- do you go to the Zargray meets? Last one was a dud- Sunday's anyway..

Phones don't work Old, hey, I don't think I am on anyone's will, so they might as well survive and clean up their own mess I suppose... the nieghborhood my great grandparents lived when they came from Italy is flat. The trouble when one of these monsters hits a 200-300 year old downtown- a couple million red bricks in all directions, lucky there ain't a million dead huh? The civil war built castle looking national guard armory, for all my relatives in the 26th in WW1 and 2 is flat, used as a day care center, lucky someone had a hunch to get all the kids in the basement. Ya know Old, I want information the egg heads don't want to tell us, cause it lets the air out of thier balloon. Al gorleoni got on this 'man made global warming'.... industry. There are lots of people making big money on this... theory. Heck, half the taxes and restrictions Lyle and the loyal Canadians have to pay thru the nose for are carbon credit bee ez. I like wikipedia- for a one word question. I wanted to know the temperature of Mars. We got stuff rolling around up there just for this reason. When I was a kid, they said Mars in the summer was -10F. Like a vicious winter night. Last year, one day in the middle of Marian summer was +81F, just like a nice summer day for us eh? Russians say Venus is alot warmer too, and a satelite is on its way to Mercury to see just how much hotter it is there. Hey, if we are all going to fry, nothing we can do about it, but don't blame me- and charge me for it, ain't my fault.. but no money to be made if it is the sun, and Al's followers would get a straight jacket if they stood in the yard and cursed the bright round object in the sky.... btw, as for the other thread, get some Vietnamese or Chinese to 'garden' some wetland bamboo for you, they will know how to turn a buck with it, and control it without a bulldozer and a tanker full of roundup....

We've had several touch down the last few weeks here in Stafford, va.

pics on the news of springfield look look pretty bad. i heard it was worse a bit east in the monson/brimfield area. a few people from my work were very close to the area that got hit good. pretty crazy out here in the east that we seem to get more of these type storms each summer lately. 2 yrs ago we got a good 1 in ct, then 2 more last yr. i can only remember 2 bad ones in my lifetime until recently in ct. 1 was the bradley airport storm and then the 1 in the late 80's that wiped out mohawk mtn ski area.

OK Jim, got to ask you like Vito- do you go to the Zargray things? I wasn't living around here during those tornados, in '79?, where it wrecked all the antique airplanes huh? where is mohawk mt? sounds like Litchfield area? There were some in Ct lately? Last year?

Well, since I'm back on line, and ready for bed... atleast 4 dead, but not the trucker, he ran away from it! the load was a hazmat load, so they didnt' want to push it off. Just before the bridge it killed two people, a young man in a car, by a big tree, and a gal covering her 15 year old in the bathtub, she did it just like the book- but the whole house fell in on them, the kid is still alive. A lady was killed in an RV at a campground, 95 out of 97 campers were distroyed, but a mostly weekend place, only her and 9 others there. I don't know about the 4th. As for my pathetic gang, trying to get the news insted of cartoons was frustrating, like a 'lost remote joke' while another rotten 'straight line wind shear?' went by...it missed us, we missed it. There were atleast 9 twisters. A path about 50 miles long, about 60 wide-from Conn line to Vermont line. Most had the decency to stay in Massachusetts. The neighbor that usually hits me up for firewood is busy going to the city and combing streets 'volunteering' to saw up the drops. Good for him and the victims too. 2 or 3 colonial villages were wiped out, a couple 200 year old churches were wacked. A friend in NY state called, he is a contractor, he sez this 100-200 year old mortar might have no adhesion? strength anymore, hence the millions of flying bricks.... my next place is going to be an underground bunker, outside of tornado... and snow.... country....

I wasI living in Mass in 1953 when a tornado went through Worcester and passed through a field across the road from our place.I saw a lot of debris in the air, no funnel.It blew down some trees just up the road.It seemed to do damage in the low places and none on the hills.It broke off a big pine where we camped out.I have some photos of the damage in the woods.It destroyed and old house about a mile away and left an old barn next to it with no damage.It took down another house across the road.Travelsd about 2 miles and flattened the Wampum Corner garage a good sized concrete building.After that it just ran out in the woods.When they built route 495 in the early 60s it followed the exact route of the 53 tornado.This still bothers me to this day.I had a new house in the path way of 495.Moved to Maine and bought an old farm in a village.In early summer of 1966 I saw some bad weather comming out of the north west,strange yellow sky.I put the horses in the barn.There was a small window just behind the horse stalls I had taken out for the summer.There was a solid wall of yellow water just out side the window.Plenty of noise.It peeled the metal roof of the general store across the intersection about 250 ft away.There was a piece of cast iron vent pipe from the store roof laying at the end of my driveway .My wife and daughter were in the kitchen and saw the same solid wall of yellow water from the kitchen windows.Ive had two close calls with tornadoes in 73 years.No place is tornado proof.No more tornados here since but they have happened around the state in small areas.We did have tornado warnings the same day Springfield was hit.I noticed a yellow tint in the western sky.

I worked with a guy who was in worcester when that one hit, he didn't like it too much either. He was more scared of that than the Korean war! I hear it was one of the highest death tolls till recently- 93? I didn't know that's where 495 is, civil engineers made it easy on themselves didn't it? My until now underemployed cousin just came to get his work trailer off my place, stored here for lack of work- not now. I gave him some huge tarps I was going to use for plant protection, I told him to donate them to someone without a roof, worst things than an early frost. Yeah my mom's years with the red cross out west and down south taught her to hide from yellow skies, she said it might p!$$ a tornado on us! She nearly died in one in- Norman OK? Just before y2k if I remember, it hit a town, everything was set up in the high school, all at once everyone packs in the boiler room and chases under the school, come up a while later- no school, no red cross stuff, no bunks, no school cafeteria... she said that's when you want to say "beam me up Scotty". you could learn to put up with northern Maine snow after this sort of thing eh? I made another batch of pipe tobacco, too much cherry syrup in with the maple, had to dry up 2 weeks before it would light up. Think I'll just buy a bag of cheap stuff from the indians.

(quoted from post at 19:22:43 06/02/11) OK Jim, got to ask you like Vito- do you go to the Zargray things? I wasn't living around here during those tornados, in '79?, where it wrecked all the antique airplanes huh? where is mohawk mt? sounds like Litchfield area? There were some in Ct lately? Last year?

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sorry for the late reply but been busy cutting some hay. i've been to zargray a couple of times, i live in the next town over and grew up in that area, pretty good display of machines there and some good demos. there are also a couple of good shows nearby, 1 is held at 4 town fairgrounds in somers, and there is usually 1 put on by the tobacco valley flywheelers at a park in e. hampton by the salmon river. also brooklyn fair grounds has 2 shows ag days and the truck show which is very good time checking out all the real old trucks. heck check this out for a list of shows
http://www.bellshome.com/shows.htm
as for the tornados we had 2 last spring down in southern ct bridgeport area and 1 in wethersfield area 2 yrs back, i remember that 1 well as i did a lot of restoration work then when i was still working as a cable splicer for our local telco. the bradley 1 was the worst i believe in our area and even though i was only 3 then i still remember seeing the damage as my grandparents lived nearby. yea mohawk mtn is right in the litchfield hills.