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To: kickstart; JRandomFreeper; libertarian27; MHGinTN
kickstart, I have a Google Earth "pushpin" placed for you in the center northbound lane of I-91-- just south of the onramp merge. That puts the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to your left and due east of you. Close enough?

I have the tornado center passing about 1,000 feet in front of you -- which means you got whacked on your left side by its southern wind wall. My guess is that the damage was mostly on the left side of your vehicle -- and you got plenty wet. (As in... a good part of the Connecticut river got dumped on you!)

Were you one of the lead vehicles in that line of backed-up traffic that stopped just south of where the tornado crossed I-91?

If so, you were very lucky: the "wind wall ring" of that thing was wider than the river at that point -- and you definitely were in a max wind zone. Good thing you had mostly water to your left; Donovan (on the other side of the river) got whacked by the roof from an "ethnic" restaurant across Hwy 5 from where he stopped.

BTW, do you know what happened to those cars that were on the Memorial Bridge when the tornado (and half the river) whacked it? Or the cars that were on I-91 just ahead of you?

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I know I'm doing this rather after-the fact -- but I just saw the Donovan video and the one from Monarch Place -- and decided to do a little "intellectual exercise" using Google Earth and Google Maps Street View to "place those videos in 3-D space". (Sort of "keeping in practice", as it were...) '-)

That thing was scary! Glad you weren't a quarter mile farther north!!

27 posted on 06/09/2011 2:51:54 PM PDT by TXnMA (There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
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To: TXnMA
BTW, do you know what happened to those cars that were on the Memorial Bridge when the tornado (and half the river) whacked it? Or the cars that were on I-91 just ahead of you?

A tractor trailer truck was tipped over on its side on the bridge (just as you would exit the bridge on the W.Springfield side)- I was watching it live and it looked like that was the only real bad issue on the bridge- I could be wrong.

There's another video someone took going 91 north on youtube - they showed themselves driving away(northbound) and it did not look like anyone northbound was seriously injured or any cars destroyed as they went through where the path was.

30 posted on 06/09/2011 4:08:25 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: TXnMA
My estimate was the tornado was only a few hundred yards across. No vehicles in front of me on 91N were flipped, as I didn't see any when I started moving again. I didn't look in back of me, but I heard no reports of flipped cars on 91 either N or S. One tractor trailer was pushed on its side on the Memorial Bridge. I have damage on my left, front and rear. I was in the right lane against the Jersey barriers so that protected my right side
31 posted on 06/09/2011 4:09:38 PM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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