Closest "sickest thunderstorm" I've been in was one I sat out at my
boyfriend's house when I was 15, up in Maine. When we were walking home, we
came across a tree that had been struck by lightning. The man who had taken
refuge from the storm under that tree wasn't very lucky. In fact, he was
deceased. At 15, it shook me up pretty well.
Also up in Maine, I've seen strange, green cloudy skies over my mother's
house at one end of Long Lake (Naples). Then come to find out that a small
tornado was spawned and touched down midway down the lake, taking down trees
and damaging houses for a brief path along the shoreline.
Other than that, my only adventure was being out in Hurricane Gloria, which
brought down a tree that crashed through a wall of my house (my grandmother
was living here at the time, called me, and I drove through the hurricane
from 10 miles away to rescue her cat and her), destroying one room
completely, moving the chimney off its footing, cracking and rippling all of
the plaster and floors in the other rooms, and generally making one whale of
a mess. The local newspaper headline was "Tree Attacks House from
Underground," as the rootball was what crashed into the house, not the tree
itself, which landed neatly between my house and the neighbor's house!
"Raymond C Martin Jr" wrote in message
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Copied from ne.weather to here because there really is no life in
ne.weather anymore... joseph bartlo and his pests have taken good
care of that...
To encourage a bit more life in this newsgroup, I'm going to borrow a
Wright-Weather thread and maybe it'll set off things here... or maybe
not... but anyway...
Hmm, how to choose, how to choose...
August 18, 1988 - Tornado hits Ewing and Trenton, NJ... tears a path a
mere quarter mile from my home, I personally witness the funnel
outline from my home (this storm was somewhat rain-wrapped).
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~138392
July 12, 1996 - Severe back-building thunderstorm dumps 8 inches of
rain in 4 hours. Massive local flooding takes place, mostly in my home
town of Ewing, NJ.
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271242
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271243
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271245
July 22, 1996 - A severe thunderstorm causes tornado-like tree damage
across the neighborhood in a tornado-like swath. One home ends up with
a tree across the middle. A true tornado is spawned several miles
southeast in Trenton and Hamilton.
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271268
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271269
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~271271
http://www.njfreeways.com/weather/da...ado-22Jun1996/
August 14, 1999 - A heavy line of thunderstorms breaks the drought of
1999 with 3 - 5 inches of rain in 2-3 hours time. I had to drive home
through this one, but not until AFTER dropping off some coworkers in
south Trenton and then heading BACK to Ewing...
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~370711
September 23, 2003 - A line of severe thunderstorms spawned a tornado
which tore through the business district of my hometown. Although I
was asleep during this storm (resting up for my AccuWeather initial
phone interview), my mother witnessed the tornado touch down, lift,
and then touch down again. Many of the items listed in the NCDC damage
report were personally witnessed and filmed.
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~512159
http://www.njfreeways.com/weather/da...rnado-23Sep03/
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Raymond C. Martin, Jr.
Associate Meteorologist, AccuWeather Inc.- http://www.accuweather.com/
New Jersey Expressways and Tollways - http://www.njfreeways.com/
Ray's Winter Storm Archive - http://www.njfreeways.com/weather/
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