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I've seen the results of 2 tornados in this area, first was a big swath cut out over off I-88 towards Cobleskill NY, late 80's real nasty storm, though the funnel size, duration and destruction was not like what you see further out west, anything that can fell trees and leave it looking like a giant lawnmower passed through is a serious force to reckon with. Lot of barns lost their roof's in that one. 10 years ago, May 31 1998 we had an all day prevailing southern wind, full of humidity, not too hot, but humid, another system or front collided with it, and the following thunderstorm was a real volatile one, high winds bending trees 1/2 over, and all the rest, about 10 miles north in Mechanicville and Stillwater NY, a tornado touched down, the damage was not as widespread as out west, but it wiped houses clean off the foundations, tossed vehicles around, cut a huge swath through the woods, tore a lot of roof's off, the goalie on our hockey team at the time lost his home and every bit of his equipment, some how we fitted him out to stay in the game. Last year we had one that came close to the '98 storm, power was out just as long, the downdraft winds were isolated in a small area, it was a direct hit, you could tell the impending doom that day was going to be a direct hit too, does not happen often either, down the road, either direction, no wind damage at all, thing barreled right down the middle of our land, bent a lot of trees over. Happens here too, matter of preference where one lives, if in a tornado prone area, I'd probably want a bunker installed and would keep my valued and irreplaceable items in there, so if my home got wiped out, items like these won't be lost.
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