Springfield, MA- Tornado Touchdown 06-01-11

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National Guard has been activited. The TV coverage of the damage is unbelieveable. There were actually TWO Seperate tornados that touched down in Springfield. Many other areas have also been hit hard. Mostly along the very busy I-90 in Mass. This happened right during rush hour traffic.

  Bridgeport, Ct was hit last year around June 24th. They had very heavy damage, but this seems to be even Worse. At this time (19:30 hrs) there are many other storm cells developing with potential tornado activity in parts of Ct and Mass.

  Winds est at 113 - 157 mph. Knocked over tractor trailers. As I understand it, only Emergency personnel and traffic allowed into the city.

 

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Tornado touched down 1/4 mile from where I picked my mother up from work in Southbridge on rte 169, at the time I didn?t know what was happening but I was driving out of the storm, and I could barely keep my truck on the road, if I?d known what was happening I would have stayed indoors. My dad has worked 18 hours since the storm hit. The local airport was destroyed only 3 planes left out of about 20 most flipped over on the runway, 2 were in a swamp, 1 was in a sand dune type hill right off of the runway. Only 1 death in my area in Brimfield Ma. If the storm had hit 1/2 mile more south of us we would have had many deaths. The storm basically went through Brimfield into Sturbridge into Southbridge and the funnel dissipated almost at the Charlton Southbridge line according to the national weather service talked to some of their personal today. Just in my town we had support from 3 other agencies covering our fire house. Mass State police, Worcester County Sheriff, and the National Guard were handling some of the traffic while Southbridge ran the calls along with some troopers; the CAT team was deployed in Southbridge last night. As I was driving my mother and sister home down a road that follows 84 west it came over the PD radio that a second and more severe storm was making its way up 84 almost at the CT border, at that point I was 3 miles from the border, never been as scared in my life as when that come over the air. At this point school is cancelled for the next few days, about 1/4 of Sturbridge has power, including myself; a good chunk of Southbridge has power. Looking at the damage it?s amazing no one was seriously hurt.support most of it.
 
From someone who grew up in Boston and attended Greenfield Comm Coll I am petty familiar with this area. All I remember is cold, snow, and leaves in the fall. Glad to see you and yours made it out all right.
 
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