By now, you have probably heard the news that MA was hit with a tornado yesterday. Here in CT we had a tornado warning for part of the day but thankfully nothing materialized. The pictures of the devastation so close to home are shocking. Despite the fact that I am from the Midwest, my town was never hit by a tornado. I haven’t even come close to seeing one (again, thankfully). But here in MA/CT tornadoes are rare. It’s not like we live in Tornado Alley!
Video of the Connecticut River (and at least one car) getting sucked into the tornado.
I got nervous yesterday when a friend posted on my Facebook wall that tornadoes were located in central MA…close to where we used to live AND along CP’s commuting route. He arrived home safely but I’m pretty sure he snuck through one area just before the tornado hit. This morning he could see the devastation from the highway. So scary.
This morning I got into work and my boss was scrambling to get in touch with people that work in our office and commute down from Springfield, MA. One of my coworkers doesn’t have any power and a tree is down on top of her house. She was still a bit hysterical because she was finishing up at work yesterday when her daughter called, scared out of her mind, and told her, “Mommy, I can see a tornado.” My coworker yelled at her daughter to get down to the basement, but her daughter was so frightened that she couldn’t move. When my coworker got home, her daughter was still in the same room, hysterically crying.
Video of the Connecticut River (and at least one car) getting sucked into the tornado.
I got nervous yesterday when a friend posted on my Facebook wall that tornadoes were located in central MA…close to where we used to live AND along CP’s commuting route. He arrived home safely but I’m pretty sure he snuck through one area just before the tornado hit. This morning he could see the devastation from the highway. So scary.
This morning I got into work and my boss was scrambling to get in touch with people that work in our office and commute down from Springfield, MA. One of my coworkers doesn’t have any power and a tree is down on top of her house. She was still a bit hysterical because she was finishing up at work yesterday when her daughter called, scared out of her mind, and told her, “Mommy, I can see a tornado.” My coworker yelled at her daughter to get down to the basement, but her daughter was so frightened that she couldn’t move. When my coworker got home, her daughter was still in the same room, hysterically crying.
I can’t even IMAGINE getting that call. The helplessness that you would feel in that moment as a mother.
Thankfully, all of my coworkers and their families are uninjured. Please keep the people in central MA in your thoughts….
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I was a nervous wreck at work all that afternoon, too. I live in the one county that had no warnings, but we border Hartford County so I was still nervous. The weather this year has been so crazy - here in CT and all over the country.
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