Maggie’s Riding The Storm Out
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A small tornado came up our hill in Maine summer of “73” I believe it was. I was 10 and remember it like it was yesterday. Terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.
Left several trailers twisted rubble. One was a female class mate’s parent’s double-wide. The twister picked it up and dropped it in the middle of the road a few hundred feet away. Thank God they weren’t home.
Hail the size of golf balls. My bedroom window next to my bed was double pane. A a piece of hail had hit it going so fast it knocked a near perfect 2-1/2 inch piece of glass out of the first pane that came to rest between the two panes. The inner pane undamaged.
Of course there was the obligatory roof damages and trees down. Miraculously no one was killed and only minor injuries. A baby received black and blue marks, as the family fled one of the trailers to a neighboring house, just before it took flight. Another baby was covered in glass from a single pane that smashed over its crib.
It started as a normal thunderstorm. As mom called us kids inside we protested, by she persisted. Thank god. It hit hard and so fast.
“Muttley” our Black Alaskan Husky was tied to his dog house. Inside he would end up 100 yards+ across the yard, stopping at the tree-line. He was uninjured thank God but he was terrified of thunderstorms after that. From that day forward he was always quickly brought inside any time a storm approached.
Living in far NorCal this is TRUTH!
I get asked all the time why we close I-5 during snow storms (work for DOT). The truth is ID10t drivers. One blew past a Highway Patrol officer doing 60 on snow chains!
I pulled a gooseneck through a blizzard on Thursday, and I sometimes had to slow down below 60mph!
Mostly because passing trucks made the "can't see shit" blizzard into "where is the end of my hood" blizzard.
But, being dark, I could see the reflections off the delineator posts.
I didn't see road markings for 100 miles....
Funny how studded snow tires go on the truck, and suddenly the speed limit is still perfectly safe. Then I go down south and realize the reason they're all piled up every time it rains is because they think any rubber over top of the cords is still a great tire with plenty of life left. My tires get to where they lose traction and they get replaced no matter what the tread looks like.
Mostly because passing trucks made the "can't see shit" blizzard into "where is the end of my hood" blizzard.
But, being dark, I could see the reflections off the delineator posts.
I didn't see road markings for 100 miles....
Funny how studded snow tires go on the truck, and suddenly the speed limit is still perfectly safe. Then I go down south and realize the reason they're all piled up every time it rains is because they think any rubber over top of the cords is still a great tire with plenty of life left. My tires get to where they lose traction and they get replaced no matter what the tread looks like.
