I wasI living in Mass in 1953 when a tornado went through Worcester and passed through a field across the road from our place.I saw a lot of debris in the air, no funnel.It blew down some trees just up the road.It seemed to do damage in the low places and none on the hills.It broke off a big pine where we camped out.I have some photos of the damage in the woods.It destroyed and old house about a mile away and left an old barn next to it with no damage.It took down another house across the road.Travelsd about 2 miles and flattened the Wampum Corner garage a good sized concrete building.After that it just ran out in the woods.When they built route 495 in the early 60s it followed the exact route of the 53 tornado.This still bothers me to this day.I had a new house in the path way of 495.Moved to Maine and bought an old farm in a village.In early summer of 1966 I saw some bad weather comming out of the north west,strange yellow sky.I put the horses in the barn.There was a small window just behind the horse stalls I had taken out for the summer.There was a solid wall of yellow water just out side the window.Plenty of noise.It peeled the metal roof of the general store across the intersection about 250 ft away.There was a piece of cast iron vent pipe from the store roof laying at the end of my driveway .My wife and daughter were in the kitchen and saw the same solid wall of yellow water from the kitchen windows.Ive had two close calls with tornadoes in 73 years.No place is tornado proof.No more tornados here since but they have happened around the state in small areas.We did have tornado warnings the same day Springfield was hit.I noticed a yellow tint in the western sky.
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