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.
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!!!!!!!