Tornado Hit's My Home Town

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

This is a vary rare event for a beach community.

My sister works at the high school and all of the windows of her car were blown out.

The guy in the blue sunglasses was one of my best friend's brother.

Thank God that no one was killed or seriously injured.

Revere hit by tornado - Metro - The Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/28/severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-boston-area/niu44DD0yg1PiTCbOsVyXL/story.html)

[CFrance]

Thank goodness everyone survived. Scary.

[2BNTV]

Glad no one was hurt.

Geeezzzeeeeee!!! A reminder that anything can happen, no matter why you live!!!

[karostay]

Watching story unfold on nightly news here in Maine it was an Ef2 tornado lucky no deaths
associated with the storm
There are reports of another tornado just west of Sebago Lake area at 4pm
News crews are on their way to survey the damage
Mother Nature sure has turned mean

[njbchbum]

Fretting about my Maine house - hoping for the best since it is north and east of Sebago!

[raynan]

Very unusual weather for the northeast. Hope everyone's ok in Revere. I'm from Somerville.
Nancy

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Very unusual weather for the northeast. Hope everyone's ok in Revere. I'm from Somerville.
Nancy


Somerville was experiencing heavy flooding and some storm damage. The entire eastern section of Mass is under a tornado watch.

[slipcovers]

Very unusual weather for the northeast. Hope everyone's ok in Revere. I'm from Somerville.
Nancy

Where? Did you graduate from SH? What year?

[raynan]

West Somerville. Graduated from St. Clement High School. 1968

[pooh]

Didn't realize you were from Revere! Saw pictures of the damage. What a mess for sure. So glad no one was injured. Property can be replaced, people can't.

[raynan]

New said it was a category 2. That's pretty strong.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

My sister's car

http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii564/Winston1027/EliseCarTornado_zpsff7b8bde.jpg (http://s1260.photobucket.com/user/Winston1027/media/EliseCarTornado_zpsff7b8bde.jpg.html)

[kittygilchrist]

Glad your people are safe...
Kitty

[Snowbirdtobe]

Glad everybody is safe. We are in Nahant for the summer and I didn't even think to bring my tornado alert radio from TV. We had a lot of rain but not much wind from the storm.
Next year I'll throw the radio in when I pack. My cell phone indicated a tornado warning but I didn't see it.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Glad everybody is safe. We are in Nahant for the summer and I didn't even think to bring my tornado alert radio from TV. We had a lot of rain but not much wind from the storm.
Next year I'll throw the radio in when I pack. My cell phone indicated a tornado warning but I didn't see it.

Funny, I talked to my brother in Saugus about an hour after it hit and he wasn't even aware of it. "Just a little bit of wind. No big deal."He was in Saugus about five miles from where it touched down and got almost nothing.

I said, "No, a tornado hit Revere". I asked if he had heard from my sister and he said that she was at work at Revere High School.

When I finally talked to her, I found out that the whole side of the building outside her office had been torn off. She's fine and as far as I know there were not serious injuries.

[Bruiser1]

This is a vary rare event for a beach community.

My sister works at the high school and all of the windows of her car were blown out.

The guy in the blue sunglasses was one of my best friend's brother.

Thank God that no one was killed or seriously injured.

Revere hit by tornado - Metro - The Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/28/severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-boston-area/niu44DD0yg1PiTCbOsVyXL/story.html)

I have seen the effects and devastation of Tornados (first Hand).

My father's car was thrown 500'; a tornado passed over the building he was in. 1/4 mile north a farm was leveled. Yet he survived.

Initially you see shock and then the community begins to assess the damage and rebuild their lives. Then comes the recognition that the material things that you possessed aren't nearly as important as the lives of family and friends.

And the simple thing becomes more important:

Like a troubadour singing "We Can work it out"
:crap2:

[2BNTV]

Today's Daily Sun, 7/29/14, had an article about the tornado.

[anaug67171]

The news here didn't even cover this tornado. I'm in
A suburb of NYC. Gaza's
Everything here.

[mtdjed]

Well we were in the area and there were certainly dark clouds and several storms. We were not in Revere but in Marblehead at the time. About 10 miles from the storm damage. Only a small breeze and heavy rain in Marblehead. Have not gone to Revere since this happened but not even in the news now. Could not have been that bad or it would have stayed newsworthy.