Just read about the storm in Mass...

[Racer X]

Bill, glad to hear you're in good shape.

 

[frosho]

Ditto, Bill!

Gregg, were did you go for the pictures?

 

[thebigjimsho]

I see you went to the MacDuffie School. That, to me, gives me the best scope of what we're looking at. I've driven people there multiple times. The series of pics with the big houses and the truck on its side is MacDuffie.

That campus had a heavy tree canopy as you could see if you looked on Google satellite maps. Now, all the trees are gone. Knocked down or whisked away...

 

[Mr Anonymous]

What really surprised me was people inside 495 and 128 finding mail and other belongings from people in the Springfield area in their yards ~80 miles east.

 

[thebigjimsho]

What really surprised me was people inside 495 and 128 finding mail and other belongings from people in the Springfield area in their yards ~80 miles east.

Just shows what makes a tornado. What you see touch the ground is part of a usually 5-7 mile high storm system. When it ends on the ground, it's still churning miles up.

I remember reading about the tornado that hit Worcester in '53(passed 1/4 mile N of my current home). Debris from Worcester was found in PLYMOUTH!

 

[greengiant]

Gregg, were did you go for the pictures?

these pictures were taken in downtown and the surrounding downtown area of springfield and the really bad stuff was monson it got the full force, alot of roads were closed but on the bike I could get into some areas that the cars couldn't so I got some good stuff

 

[SHOhopefull]

DAMN... yep, that thar was a tornady... Glad the damage and death toll wasn't worse.

Talking about the debris travel... one of my customers in Lewisburg, TN found a cancelled check from somewhere in middle Ms!

 

[SHOclass]

Drove through the storm while I was at work, I passed through Springfield between 4:15 and 4:30 on my way out to Palmer to deliver a customers car. Saw what I thought looked like a whirlwind forming over Agawam and proceeded onto the Masspike like a lemming to the cliff. Golf ball to baseball sized hail began screaming down from the skies as if they were down thrown by a pro ball players. Cars to my left and right were putting thier hazards on and pulling off the road, fighting for spots under the highway overpasses, and sliding into the median. I kept on trucking to palmer through the terrential rain and hail that made the "fast" mode on my windshield wipers look foolish, and the '06 Rio that I was in was fending off hail like a Spartan to a thousand Persians. Finally I made it to my destination, and like a switch it all came to an eerily calming halt. I stepped out to asess the damage, and from head to toe the car was covered in dents and a cracked rear window was a sign of just how lucky I was,....and how unfortunate my customers car was. My tail car and ride back (an '05 Taurus) had less damage, but still was dinged up pretty bad.
Now a passenger in the Taurus, we continued to go back from where we once came....To make a longer story somewhat shorter, we were turned around by Police and told to find a different way back to Enfield CT (my place of employment) and for those of you who don't know from Palmer, MA to Enfield, CT should take you no longer than 30 minutes. It took us 4 1\2 Hours to get back to Enfield on back roads because of downed trees, power lines, debris, .....ect. We got turned around a total of 18 times, all while being stalked by the storm. Needless to say It was quite an experience.

 

[lowc]

justs yesterday someone at work told me that thier was a check book found in milton,MA from someone that lived in W. springfield. its pretty amazing how much these thing are a capable of. and milton is just about a 100 miles from springfield