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JMick said:
Yeah 84/super 7 in Brookfield/new milford has the entire tops cut off for long stretches. One of the trees by me was uprooted and moved about 5 feet from where it should be
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Yep... I live and Brookfield and it was a minor miracle I was able to get out of my road and onto the highway (after driving under multiple trees leaning on power lines). Trees uprooted, snapped, and sheared off at the trunk all over.

Tornado started in New Fairfield, went over Candlewood lake, through Brookfield > Newtown. Apparently another touched down in Southbury > Oxford > Bethany > Hamden. Those towns got hit the worst.

I grew up here in Fairfield county and I've never seen a storm cause half as much damage as this.
 
Was the storm even supposed to be worst in that area? I'd originally thought the worst was supposed to be north of Hartford?
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Was the storm even supposed to be worst in that area? I'd originally thought the worst was supposed to be north of Hartford?
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Originally we were just supposed to get thunderstorms. I heard "tornado warning" around 4:00 and laughed it off because of course we don't get tornados around here. I'm just glad it hit before I left work because there were a couple dozen trees down on my drive home. 11 miles took me 2 hours.
 
I was fishing all day. Got home, backed the boat into the yard, went in the house, and 5 minutes later I wondered why it was dark. Looked up at the sky and it had that odd yellow gray color that precedes bad stuff comin at you. Ran out and put the cover on the boat just as the first twigs and raindrops started to fall. Started pouring a couple minutes before I finished. The next 20 minutes was nasty. Kind of glad the fish stopped biting when they did, or I might have stayed another half-hour. Bunch of trees down on my street, and driving up 111 this morning, it's like Hammertown road is the dividing line between lots of tree damage and "Storm? What storm?"
We didn't fare nearly as badly as my daughter across the river in Oxford. Tornado came through their back yard and right through the neighborhood. Took out a few trees in their yard, three of them landed on my grandson's Mustang. Took all the siding off one of the neighbors houses, and threw his AC unit into the next neighbor's yard. Their road remains impassable and they have no word on power restoration, but they are on generator. (coincidently, the gas station around the corner from me has lines at both sides of all 6 pumps, made up mostly of people filling tanks for their generators).
 
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uconnphil2016 said:
Was the storm even supposed to be worst in that area? I'd originally thought the worst was supposed to be north of Hartford?
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I checked the radar to see what we were getting in NY and saw the purple cell heading into CT. I was going to post something here but I figured you guys knew it was coming.
 
huskymedic said:

Doesn’t change the chaos/damages that occurred.
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And they are probably wrong. I don't think a macroburst can cause what I have been seeing in pictures. There were tornados buried in there.
 
Paesano said:
And they are probably wrong. I don't think a macroburst can cause what I have been seeing in pictures. There were tornados buried in there.
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There were 100-110 mph winds associated w/ that macroburst over a 2 1/2 mile swath...
 
I drove, or tried to, from whitney ave in hamden, up gaylord mountain into bethany this afternoon and it was straight up devastation. Telephone poles were splintered in half. Trees and powerlines down everywhere. I had to weave through a ton of backroads and around downed trees to pop back out into civilization. It was a lot like that halloween storm. Maybe worse.
 
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Tornado #2 (Beacon Falls/Bethany/Hamden):
 
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No tornados here in Pittsburgh. Just enough rain coming down fast enough where my driveway drain couldn't handle it and it backed up 2-1/2 feet up my garage doors.

Luckily caught in time to keep basement hallway to only an inch. Bailed at least 50 gals. Don't want to know how deep it is inside garage... will find out in morning.
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
I was at a little league game in Watertown after the 1989 one and an entire stand of trees behind center field had their tops shorn off like a giant with shears decided to prune them.
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Yes, I lived in Watertown at that time, July of 89. I was 11 yrs old and played at Mosgrove little league field you are referring to. That was a crazy storm, still remember vividly. Lots of damage, we had 6 trees down on our property. No power for 2 weeks.
 
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NC_Uconn_Fan said:
Yes, I lived in Watertown at that time, July of 89. I was 11 yrs old and played at Mosgrove little league field you are referring to. That was a crazy storm, still remember vividly. Lots of damage, we had 6 trees down on our property. No power for 2 weeks.
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Bantam after 1989 tornado.
All along Rt. 202 where it meets Rt. 209 was shredded. Buildings flattened. Debris from buildings strewn everywhere. I remember a sign that said "Don't just stare. Help." Just north of that, my father and I drove past a forested area where a swath of trees a couple of hundred yards wide were just sheared off.
 
This is from New Fairfield. Pic from yesterday, but it's my understanding that it's still that way today, except they got the car out.

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We had mail carriers still on the street in cheshire when this thing hit, management was hiding in the basement.
 
While CT was getting hit hard, we here in central Florida were getting thunder, lighting and torrential downpours and some flooding.

Texted our 2 sons to make sure they were okay as were their families. One son lives in Danbury, they still do not have power as of this morning. But they can get around. Our other son lives in Southbury. An absolute mess in Southbury. The road they live on just became passable yesterday. A lot of devastation.
 
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Hope everyone comes out ok from this.

Makes you appreciate what people in PR are going through.
 
fleudslipcon said:
Hope everyone comes out ok from this.

Makes you appreciate what people in PR are going through.
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People don't even realize there people still without power there. They didn't even have drinkable water or cooking options for quite some time in some places
 
I have a sales guy who works for me and lives on Candlewood, they got pretty hammered in the lake area. He had a tree down on his house and boat and said boats, trees, power lines were everywhere. He went home to find his son who he couldn't get a hold of and wasn't sure he knew the extent of the storm, said driving into the microburst/tornado made him feel like the movie "Twister" having to back up a few times and change direction, go around things and have other things flying at him. Crazy stuff... glad everyone is ok.
 
Just got power back in brookfield. No school here tomorrow and Tuesday. Unreal.
 
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