Reply #49: The Berkshires have tornados! ~ MA has had it's share of disasters! ('06-'07)

[Breeze54]

From disasters.... hurricanes!

There have been many...we're just in a lull.

Don't you remember all the flooding last June of 2006?

Don't kid yourself into a false sense of security.

Berkshire County Tornadoes

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/matorn.htm

Date-----------Categorey
JLY 12, 1955 - F2
SEP 07, 1958 - F0
OCT 03, 1963 - F1
MAR 01, 1966 - F2
AUG 11, 1966 - F2
JUN 18, 1970 - F1
AUG 28, 1973 - F4 - 4 Killed - 36 injured
JLY 13, 1975 - F2
JLY 27, 1978 - F0
JLY 11, 1984 - F1
MAY 29, 1995 - F3 - 3 killed -24 injured


Massachusetts Disaster History

http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters_state.fema?id=25

Major Disaster Declarations

2007 05/16 Severe Storms and Inland and Coastal Flooding - active disaster
2006 05/25 Severe Storms and Flooding - not active disaster
2005 11/10 Severe Storms and Flooding - not active disaster
2004 04/21 Flooding - not active disaster
2001 04/10 Severe Storms & Flooding - not active disaster
1998 06/23 Heavy Rain And Flooding - not active disaster
1996 10/25 Severe Storms/Flooding - not active disaster
1996 01/24 Blizzard - not active disaster
1992 12/21 Winter Coastal Storm - not active disaster
1991 11/04 Severe Coastal Storm - not active disaster
1991 08/26 Hurricane Bob - not active disaster
1987 04/18 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING - not active disaster
1985 10/28 HURRICANE GLORIA - not active disaster
1981 12/03 Urban Fire - not active disaster
1978 02/10 Coastal Storms, Flood, Ice, Snow - not active disaster
1973 10/16 Fire (City of Chelsea) - not active disaster
1972 09/28 TOXIC ALGAE IN COASTAL WATERS - not active disaster
1972 03/06 SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING - not active disaster
1955 08/20 HURRICANE, FLOODS - not active disaster
1954 09/02 HURRICANES - not active disaster
1953 06/11 TORNADO



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Hurricane Carol - August 31, 1954.

http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecarol.htm

( Hurricane Carol greeted me into the world!! :party: )


The frightening intensity of Hurricane Carol's storm surge in Rhode Island
is captured in this photograph of Westerly, Rhode Island.

Hurricane Carol is the most destructive tropical cyclone to hit
the northeast Atlantic states since the 1938 hurricane


Carol was more damaging to southeastern Massachusetts than the 1938 hurricane.

After roaring across Long Island and through southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and the Cape Cod area- Hurricane Carol was still not through. Racing northward,
almost 100-miles inland, the Boston area was hit worse than in 1938. Trees, traffic
lights, and even the steeple of the Old North Church, crashed into the streets. An
estimated 500,000 people in the Boston area lost power during Carol. Although most
tropical cyclones lose their intensity when they reach this far north - Carol, produced
hurricane force gusts into New England. In Concord, New Hampshire, city hall recorded
gusts to 70-mph. Even as far north as Maine, the storm still had hurricane force gusts:
the Augusta State Airport reported an 80-mph peak gust as the weakening tropical storm
passed through. Carol finally died over the cool forests of Canada on September 1st.


In howling winds and a dark sky near 12 noon -
the two-hundred- foot, 148-year old steeple of
the Old North Church crashes into the streets
of Boston during Hurricane Carol in 1954.
The steeple had stood since 1806.

Hurricane Carol killed 66 people, injured several thousand, and left many locations in
Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern Massachusetts in shambles. Although tragic,
the death toll was still far less than the 688 killed in the 38 cyclone. The storm
also left several hundred homeless in southern Rhode Island, and was a major economic blow
to the Rhode Island and Connecticut beach tourist industry. Downtown Providence, Rhode Island,
for the second time in less the 20-years - had suffered a severe storm surge from a tropical cyclone.
The Federal Government and the State of Rhode Island decided that something needed to be done
to protect the capital city of Providence from hurricane storm surge flooding. A few years later
the Providence Hurricane Barrier was constructed to protect the city from tidal flooding.

Although the total number of buildings damaged by Hurricane Carol was less than in the 38 storm,
property values had increased greatly. Carol had produced destruction from Long Island to Canada;
however, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts suffered the greatest destruction.
Carol was the most expensive hurricane to ever strike the United States up to that date (1954).
Losses were nearly $500 million.($6.4 billion in 2004 dollars).