What happened in Springfield was horrible but I do not know why you never thought I'd see this in Massachusetts...
They have had tornados in Massachusetts before, they are just not common. They get them in Western Mass more that Eastern and a rather bad one went through central in 1953 right about where Westborough High School sits today actually and it took off part of a friend of mines house back in 1953 it was an F4-F5 Tornado. He was not there then but the foundation is stil there from where that part of the house use to be
There have also been tornados in Massachusetts 1680 (the first confirmed) and the other in 1787, 1851, 1890, 1984, 1995 and 1998
Yeah that was awful. Where I am in CT, it hailed pretty hard for about 15 mins. I spotted a couple golfball size ones too.
But it's still a far cry from having a handful every year....
What happened in Springfield was horrible but I do not know why you never thought I'd see this in Massachusetts...
They have had tornados in Massachusetts before, they are just not common. They get them in Western Mass more that Eastern and a rather bad one went through central in 1953 right about where Westborough High School sits today actually and it took off part of a friend of mines house back in 1953 it was an F4-F5 Tornado. He was not there then but the foundation is stil there from where that part of the house use to be
There have also been tornados in Massachusetts 1680 (the first confirmed) and the other in 1787, 1851, 1890, 1984, 1995 and 1998
Never expected to see that level of damage. I remember news of minor tornados hitting, but not leveling-houses-to-the-ground-and-ripping-the-roofs-off-schools tornados. I thought that only happened in other places![]()
Interesting that there were a lot more in the 1800s than there were in the 1900s.
Yeah well they stopped showing up as much after I got there![]()
BTW i work for a cable company...and we have services up there.
Mass has declared a state of Emergency and has called in the National Guard.