Originally Posted by Lostn51
My neighborhood looks like a war zone and we had the 117mph straight line winds. Lucky for me we never lost power but our phone lines were out. There are only 10 homes in my neighborhood with electricity, and all you can hear outside are generators and chain saws running. I am going to have to put a roof on my house and cut a tree down but other than that I should be okay. Might as well go ahead and relandscape the thing, my yard is ruined from all of the tree limbs falling and the rain.
But there was at one time 6 tornadoes on the ground at the same time all around us. I saw one go over our home before it touched down a mile or two from here. I am so glad the storms are over with!!!
Billy
Billy - thank goodness that tornado didn't touch down on you, but I feel so helpless for all the others. May you be as lucky through the rest of this awful storm season!
Shortstuff - thank goodness that you were spared, too. It's so hard to comprehend when you see huge trees blown over.
We had a tornado touch down in our town several years ago (very unusual in CT) and the ONLY thing it did was to take down many 100 and 150 year old maples. None of them hit power lines or houses, but it was a shocking display of nature's power.