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    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    A bit of a disheartening conversation with my mom yesterday. 

    My parents (mom is 80 years old and my dad 87) live in Southbury, CT...one of the towns that was hit hard during last weeks severe.  They lost power as the tornado path seemingly went overhead and touchdown not too far from their house.  Lucky for them they were able to head to the Adirondacks for Memorial day a bit earlier, leaving the downed wires, trees, other damage, and frustrations of everyone else behind.  Many people were not so lucky as they were forced to hold up in shelters.  

    We spoke yesterday about the weather, and forecasting in general, although the main gist of the brief conversation was with regard to the same old stuff we read on this forum...She was pretty much disgruntled at the "lack of forecasting", preparing them for the weather that happened that day. She admitted that early on in the day and the night before there were discussions of severe weather, but what got her was that no one mentioned on the news that there would be all of the damage, particularly the extent of the power outages in her area.  Basically, she is of that age where there is this expectation of details and specifics that just don't exist.  It was  bit disheartening to hear as I know all of the mets on this forum hear this kind of frustration all of the time...always 20/20 vision after the fact kind of stuff. She even pulled the go to line out as well..."Why do they even bother when most of the time they are wrong" .  She ended with, "What ever happened to the old days where the weather would come in once at night and once in the morning? Instead we have all day forecasting with nothing predicting what happened"  By the time it's my turn to chime in she has already worked herself up and want to discuss it anymore. 

    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    3 hours ago, JKEisMan said:

    Maybe Ryan or someone else here knows if the NWS actually sent out a survey team to New Fairfield.  The public info statement focused on Brookfield yesterday and today’s final report seems to tack New Fairfield on as an afterthought as part of the macroburst, without any mention of consult/survey with local authorities there.  They confirmed an EF1 right over the border in Patterson/Putnam Lake, NY (maybe 0.5 mile from the border) and the macroburst to the east. I’ve never seen so many big trees uprooted and tossed and this is the scene all over town, see link from twitter at end. I would have thought it warranted more survey given tragic loss of life, injuries, and damage in town. 

    **removed link as originally twitter feed said it was fine to use, except for ones with faces, of which there were a few**

    I don't understand that line of reasoning.  Once it is out there for people to see in a social media format it is almost impossible for it  not to be shared unless it is via private message, email,etc.

    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

    Fam in SBY good? no damage to the house?

    No damage to the house. A few limbs down, but I am not sure when power will be restored so I might take a trip out there after work.   

    My mom's cell phone battery was low last night, and I know they have their land line tied in with the digital cable so that means there is no landline working (since I am sure they did not purchase the 48 hour battery with it).  

    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

    I’ll most likely, a good thing, never see anything like this again living here. Sick. Too bad I have to work today and leave for vaca tomorrow, otherwise I’d damage hunt around town and take pics.

    If you really cared about your on-line friends you would cancel your vacation and take pics for us.

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    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

    What a crazy day. We went to the park and talked and I was explaining to her about the storms and then we went to a diner and about 5 minutes later power went out and all hell broke lose. She even took video of the storm too and laughed when I ran outside and got drenched. She went crazy when it started hailing and even picked up some pieces. Her house though and town got hit very hard. Trees all over her front yard uprooted and same in the back. 

    I'm turned on.

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    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    1 minute ago, OceanStWx said:

    Nice wall clouds, and RFD cut coming in around it (brighter clouds on the upper left)

    I always find it awesome when this stuff is seen on the fly like this and people can take a photo.   I would have done the same thing in the middle of the road if I could.

    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Johnno said:

    Listening to LCD dispatch sounds like Serious is damage in Brookfield, CLP cutting all power to the town, FD task forces enroute, request for 20 ambulances 

    Crap.  That is not good.

    My parents are right up the way in Southbury...Eversource reporting 99% outage.

    May 15 2018 Severe Threat SNE

    in New England

    Posted

    The heavies just ripped through town.  A bit of lightning and some thunder, but overall pretty meh here with a side of eh. Is nice to see some lightning and a few rumbles of thunder though.

    Edit:
    Was nice looking south and seeing brightness and north seeing the satanic darkness though when driving up from Norwich.

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