[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by pooh

Do you have a weather radio Senior? The weather today has indeed been a bit different than what one is more accustomed to, that's for sure. If no radio, time to keep tv on.

Stay safe.

Yes we do, as well as a scanner. No tornados touched down in Vermont but the warnings were out there. We just had strong winds and heavy rains. Our ovenights are going down into the low '40s tonight and the high for today will be 67 degrees with full sunshine and will remain the same for about a week , or so says the local meteorologist. Perfect crisp autumn weather after a pretty muggy humid summer.

Springfield, MA tornado: Video footage of twister that killed 4 in Massachusetts | Mail Online

ABOVE HYPERLINK shows the destruction of the SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS tornado a short time ago in 2011........keep scrolling downward for the awesome photos.......it happened at evening "rush hour"..........unbelievable. Huge amount of photos with videos at the end.

The last tornado I recall that was similar to the link above was back in the 1990's when a teacher was driving his students ; the tornado picked up his van and transported them across the road.....they all perished. I believe that was in the Berkshires someplace.
We had one in our town about the same time but it only took a few roofs off north of us.
Nothing like the MIDWEST.

But do check out the above link, which I was amazed to find in the London England newspaper.........the photos at the very bottom show the bridge, etc. and the fury of the tornado in Springfield, Massachusetts which isn't that far from us, off the Mass Pike.

Again, tornados are rare in Vermont, but northern Vermont has seen funnel clouds that tear off barn roofs, home roofs and cause damage to the extreme........but again, nothing like the midwest or south.

There are about 30+ photos and several videos of the Springfield Mass . tornado plus quite an interesting newspaper article from the Daily Mail United Kingdom newspaper.
I'm thinking that tornados are NOT an excuse to avoid Florida for retirement; as they can happen anywhere lately............

To our good neighbors across the border in Mass. and N.Y. and N.H., stay safe in this recent unpredictable weather. The New York Beach tornado was out of this world.
My dad used to take us to Coney Island and Far Rockaway ; he had relatives in Brooklyn, Staten Island and of course New York City and out on Long Island as well. Many of them had originated in lower Manhattan (from Italy) as I was thinking while watching the anniversary documentaries of 911 in N.Y.C. A storm of another kind.