http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025191657
The truth is this isn't unusual at all. - Especially along the edge of the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts - but this primitive is running round in circles over sensationalized reports on NECN. (New England Cable News)
BTW, the reason we get little tornadoes during the summer is because of the foothills, the gulf stream and our proximity to The Great Lakes.
Warm,moist air comes up during the day - colder air comes in from the Great Lakes region, the two streams meet at the Berkshires and they dance. Most of the time it results in crazy thunder and hail, and sometimes we get a small tornado. However, the tornado is usually short-lived because of the Commonwealth's irregular geography. The foothills and valleys disturb the airflow so the tornado breaks up.
ITS NO BIG DEAL.
Mother remembers the tornado of the 30's that ripped through eastern Mass that ripped the roofs off the Mills in town. Just about shut the town down as the workers were out of a job for 18 months or so.
Today, I do not worry about the tornado's I have a fear of those unexplained so called incidences that cause some kind of burst--I cannot at this time remember the name, was this an iconic burst ? But 20+ years ago a town park had one of them and killed couple people and took down the trees in the area. The area reminded me of Russia and their problems a long time ago. Pictures of the devastation to the forest were spot on.
Then 10+ years ago we here had one of these out of the blue bursts, trees were blown through roofs and some homes moved on their foundations.
My home is located behind a 3 story building and for some reason the burst hit it and split in half, we and neighbors behind it just lost a few roof shingles, those to right and left had much damage. But the damage was odd, for a non tornado it seemed to skipped about, almost like it was zeroing in on some places and ignoring others.
We get warnings of some problems, hurricanes and tornados high winds,storm surges ,floods, thunder storms but these damn things like earth quakes just pop up for no reason we the non scientist are not expecting, most likely the scientists aren't expecting either.
Had a lake north of us, about 20 miles that was hit by something a few years ago, much damage to the homes on the lake and pictures showed a straight line destruction to the forest. For a few acres all the trees were on the ground laying in the same direction.
