Tornado warning issued for central MA

[smirkymonkey]

Very unusual for this area.

Climate change is a Chinese hoax!

[Submariner]

1. Worcester had a tornado in 1953

As a little kid that storm was a BFD for me and my 2nd grade class.

94 killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Worcester_tornado

[zanana1]

2. OMG!

I hope that history doesn't repeat itself.

[smirkymonkey]

4. That was a pretty serious toll for this area of the country.

I guess it happens, but it's very rare. Hopefully it will fizzle out before any damage is done.

[malaise]

8. Stay safe folks

[JPK]

9. I was there in Worcester, 1953

My mom was 6 months pregnant with me She also had my 18 mo old sister with her as well. She hid in the middle hallway of her apartment with my sister. It tore the roof off her apt building. Our apartment was on the second floor of a three story building. We were living in Curtiss Apartments at the time.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Looked at map - my home town - Holliston Mass...radar shows a big bad

band of weather....be well all..tornado alert is unusual...a Chinese hoax..

[smirkymonkey]

5. I have good friends with a home in Holliston. They are working in Columbia right now, so

they aren't living there, but I hope everything will be ok. They really love that house and plan to move back soon someday.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. Wonderful town for raising a family - my son and brother are still there..

My daughter and other son have since moved here to AZ - fond memories, summers on cape...

[smirkymonkey]

7. It is a great town. They have three young daughters who are becoming fluent in Spanish and

getting to be kick-ass soccer players in Colombia, but I think they would like to get back to Holliston soon.

[DFW]

10. I hope it comes no farther east

We only have 6 more days vacation and then the real world starts again for 11 months. The only distraction I ever welcomed while I'm here (Truro, Massachusetts) was the one I received 6 years ago.*

*When you get an email asking if you would like an hour with President Barack Obama in Washington, the first answer that pops into your mind is NOT "no, thanks, I'm on vacation--some other time, perhaps."

[smirkymonkey]

12. I hope for both our sakes it doesn't, but I think we are out of danger.

It probably won't be much of a beach day though. Hope you and your family are enjoying yourselves anyway!

So did you go down to meet w/ Obama? What was he like when you met him? A friend of mine is married to Ash Carter. She said Obama was very nice, but a bit reserved in person.

[DFW]

14. We left early for the beach, just in time to enjoy 90 minutes there

Now, in the last hour, we have seen more rain than we have in the whole time since we got here.

Here is the post I put up after the WH sent me up the photos:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/125170848

[smirkymonkey]

15. Very cool pics! I would love to meet him and Michelle sometime.

They represent hope for so many people.

I hope the weather gets better for you down on the cape - I think the upcoming week is supposed to be hot and sunny, but humid with maybe a few scattered showers here and there.

[DFW]

16. I got the impression he is very much at ease with people he considers his intellectual equal

I don't have a law degree from Harvard (or anywhere else), but in the one hour, we covered the 2012 election, health care, the US budget, Syria (as it stood at the time), the Egyptian economy, Republican voter suppression and a few other topics. I wish we could have gone on for another couple of hours, but he had this day job he had to get back to.......

[jpak]

11. Storm damage in Webster

https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/tornado_warning_expanded_to_mi.html

[smirkymonkey]

13. Wow! Looks pretty bad.

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Hopefully there were no casualties. Update: Just saw on the local news that a tornado actually did touch down in Webster.