Posted on 08/08/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Over the last thirty years, NY has averaged ~10 tornadoes a year, most of which have been in the EF0/EF1 category. July is the busiest month. So far this year, NY has had six tornadoes. All but one have been EF0/EF1, and the lone exception was an EF2. Seems pretty normal to me.
Good point. When they dubbed "Sandy" a SUPERSTORM (IMHO, simply because it was bearing down on NYC and NJ), it really rubbed me the wrong way.
I grew up in eastern NC and moved back after college. A tornado that nearly hit our house is literally my earliest memory of childhood.
I have lived through many, many serious hurricanes including Fran, Floyd and most recently, Matthew. None of them were deemed "superstorms" but I can only assume that's because they affected us yokels down here in North Cackalacky.
/rant over
The corrected track of the storm shows its path to be just a few miles north of the bridge. So my mother would have had an astonishing view. Survivors said that the funnel was so big that you could not tell it was a tornado - just debris flying all over the place. Meteorologists figure the winds at max intensity were in excess of 350 mph - a very strong F4.
Not many people are aware of that fact. Since 1990 the rate of weakening has increased with each passing year. So a pole shift is coming. The bad aspect is that as the magnetic poles weaken and shift, our protection from cosmic radiation is greatly decreased, and the intensity and frequency of geologic activity is greatly increased. Also notable is that the Earth’s magnetic field helps hold our atmosphere in place.
I remember that storm.
I was standing in Brookline Village waiting for a bus and knew nothing about the tornado.
Millions of leaves were just hovering in the air over us——one of the strangest thing that I had ever seen—they just stayed there.
When I arrived home and turned on the radio I heard about the tornado.
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I cannot even imagine the fury of that...a mile wide, 350 mph winds.
Coming over a bridge and seeing that...GET OFF THE BRIDGE!!!!!!!
I know of reported tornadoes in Upstate NY in the 1800s. This ain’t nuthin new.
Springfield MA is still trying to get more federal aid—from the 2011 tornado.
Most of Springfield looks like a tornado hit it yesterday—so it is a great long con. :-)
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