This weekend my friend and I got stuck in a severe thunderstorm right outside my house. I was about to get out of the car when there was sudden heavy rain, hail, branches falling on her car, and we could hardly see through the windshield. It looked much like the white-outs we New Englanders experience in the winter.Because of so many trees falling in less than a minute, they are saying that it was a wind shear—think inverted-tornado, where a strong wind hits straight down to the ground and shoots out in all directions. My street seemed to be the only street with damage in Great Barraington.
One of seven trees that fell. Can you see the other tree crushing my neighbor's car in the background?
I was so lucky because the tree which crushed my neighbor's car fell right alongside my car, leaving these branches peeping through the open window.
This telephone poll split in half and hung by the electrical lines!
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Amazing...I saw the aftermath of something like this when I lived in the Monadnock region. Just one small section of Wilton was hit, but boy was it ever. Trees and power lines down everywhere. I'm glad you're OK!
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