[BC] Very quiet...

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

In the northeast, there is so much radiation from power line corona that one can't hear atmospheric noise anymore. Fortunately, we don't have too many tornadoes although there was one in New Braintree, Massachusetts, two years ago. It wiped out a tree!

The "big one" was the '53 Worcester tornado. It is still the topic of conversation amongst weather watchers. After it destroyed many towns, starting at Petersham, through Barre, Rutland, on to Worcester where it wiped out Assumption College, and took out many other neighborhoods, it ventured out to Lake Quinsigamond which it sucked dry. The fish, frogs, etc., from that lake got deposited on lawns in the town of Northborough, about fifteen miles away!

Near the lake was the White City amusement park. It had a wooden roller-coaster, second only to the famous one at Revere Beach. It became kindling and was never rebuilt. It took over two years for Lake Quinsigamond to refill.

Some weather scientists think that if it had not been for that lake, which cooled the cumulonimbus cloud, forcing the tordado to dissipate, the tornado would have followed US Route 9 out to Boston and done billions in damage and killed many thousands. This is because the tornado was still building in intensity when it hit the water!

That is in the days when a billion dollars was still a lot of money.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>

AM radios are great for that and so are analog TV's on CH2 when there is no
local signal.  When the screen turns almost pure white with little raster,
head for the storm celler.

Blue screens dont count

Paul Smith
Sarasota, FL

Behalf Of Dave Dunsmoor