Yesterday's twister in New Hampshire

ckofer · Jul 25, 2008

I drove by the mess this evening. It is just amazing how precise a tornado (I think it's official) can be. In one a few of the pics is the home that collapsed where a woman perished.

The media is still there this evening with their trucks and helicoptors. Some buildings and many trees were devestated-but in a very narrow path. A few hundred yards away were buildings that seemed untouched.

You should be able to click the pics for larger versions:

snoseek · Jul 25, 2008

That looks horrible! Where did it happen?

wa-loaf · Jul 25, 2008

Heard on npr tonight that it was confirmed a cat 2 tornado.

In Epsom: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/cleanup_underwa.html

ckofer · Jul 25, 2008

The pictures that I took were on Route 4 in Epsom. I was looking across Northwood Lake at Deerfield. The storm managed to attack other places too, such as Barnstead.

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/GJNEWS_01/156681953/-1/rss1&source=RSS

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/FRONTPAGE/807250318/1001/RSS01

Terry · Jul 25, 2008

It also crossed in basically a straight line rt 109, 16,153, 25. It was a a swath about a quater mile wide that everything was torn to shreds. No trees laid in a straight line, everything was twisted in different dirrections. I rode through there today and it was unreal. Just a narrow path of total destruction and then nothing on either side. Mother nature can be brutal when she wants to be.

Trekchick · Jul 25, 2008

Sad and humbling.

deadheadskier · Jul 25, 2008

ckofer said:
I drove by the mess this evening. It is just amazing how precise a tornado (I think it's official) can be.

Indeed. The Worcester Tornado hit the town I grew up in, Westboro, Mass during the 50's. It literally went right down my grandmothers street and leveled some of her neighbors houses, but for whatever reason hers was unscathed. Only one tree in her yard was downed, yet there were several fatalities very close by. I imagine it's the elusiveness and the preciseness of a tornado that makes people want to chase them.

Scary, scary stuff. I was in Durham when that storm rolled in and even ten to fifteen miles southeast of the worst of it, watching that storm come in was freaky. There were several people standing outside the gas station looking at the front saying 'Oh My God'....felt like I was in a horror movie a little. Once I got east on 4 and was heading down 16 over the Great Bay it was kind of cool to look at from a distance, especially once I heard it was tracking north of where my location was.

vibes definitely go out to that poor woman and any family affected by this storm.

GrilledSteezeSandwich · Jul 26, 2008

Warp Daddy · Jul 26, 2008

Horrible --------------- The power of nature and the randomness is just simply devastating and leaves us all humbled with the knowledge that we have zero control of most everything in life except how we choose to react !

be good to each other people

drjeff · Jul 26, 2008

Just saw this pic posted by the guys at lakes region aerials(www.lakesregionaerials.com), who flew over the tornado path and took a bunch of pics.

This one really stood out to me showing just how localized the path of destruction is/was

Tornado_2008_g123-July_24_2008_p1032.html

drjeff · Jul 26, 2008

drjeff said:
Just saw this pic posted by the guys at lakes region aerials(www.lakesregionaerials.com), who flew over the tornado path and took a bunch of pics.

This one really stood out to me showing just how localized the path of destruction is/was

Oops, sorry for the "red x"

Here's a direct link to all 40 odd pics that they took

http://www.lakesregionaerials.com/photostore/Tornado_2008_g123.html

ckofer · Jul 26, 2008

I just got back from helping restore some of the irrigation at Van Berkum Nurseries in Deerfield. I think it's in the upper left hand corner of this pic:

http://www.lakesregionaerials.com/photostore/Tornado_2008_g123-July_24_2008_p1031.html

They had a ton of damage. Toppled pine trees everywhere. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.

Some of the shots below are not that great. I used my camera phone and it was getting dark. If it's a picture of a field, it probably was forest before the storm.

deadheadskier · Jul 27, 2008

I wonder how they are able to catagorize tornadoes after the fact. In the case of this one being an F2, its hard to fathom the level damage being much worse in that storms path.

wa-loaf · Jul 27, 2008

deadheadskier said:
I wonder how they are able to catagorize tornadoes after the fact. In the case of this one being an F2, its hard to fathom the level damage being much worse in that storms path.

The F rating is based on wind speed, so depending on what got destroyed and how far stuff got thrown they can estimate the speed and rate the twister.

Worse damage? This is what a cat 5 can do:

ckofer · Jul 27, 2008

^^^^^^^

what he said

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/tornado/fscale.shtml

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