TIME.
(MM)
BUT FIRST--
BREAKING NEWS--
JUST OVER THE RHODE
ISLAND BORDER--
(MM)
THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE HAS NOW
CONFIRMED--
TWO TORNADOES
TOUCHED DOWN IN----
SOUTHERN WORCESTER
COUNTY EARLY THIS
MORNING.
(HE)
SKYDRONE 12 CAPTURED
THESE IMAGES OF THE
DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND--
IN DOUGLAS AND UPTON
MASSACHUSETTS.
YOU CAN SEE DOWNED
TREES--
AND ABOUT A DOZEN
DAMAGED HOMES.
(MM)
THIS WEATHER COMES
JUST ONE WEEK--
AFTER AN----- E-F ZERO
TORNADO----- STRUCK
NORTHEASTERN
CONNECTICUT--
IN THE TOWN OF
ASHFORD.
THIS VERY SMALL AND
VERY FAST STORM--
LASTED ONLY ABOUT ONE
MINUTE.
(HE)
THE PINPOINT
NEWSTRACKER SHOWS
YOU JUST HOW CLOSE TO
RHODE ISLAND--
THESE STORMS WERE--
WITH BOTH AREAS
IMPACTED--
JUST OVER THE BORDER.
(MM)
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER KAIT WALSH IS
LIVE IN UPTON
MASSACHUSETTS--
WITH A LOOK AT THE
DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND
THERE--
AND WHAT THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IS
SAYING TONIGHT.
KAIT?
(KW)
THIS IS THE DAMAGE LEFT
BEHIND BY AN EF-1
TORNADO EARLY THIS
MORNING HERE IN UPTON.
WE HAVE BEEN
FOLLOWING THE
NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE THROUGH
DOUGLAS AND UPTON AS
THEY MADE THE
DETERMINATION THAT
TWO TORNADOES
TOUCHED DOWN.
EARLIER - WE CAME HERE
TO EPHRAIM'S WAY AND
JONATHAN'S WAY- AND WE
COULDN'T EVEN SEE THIS
HOUSE BEHIND US.
CLEARLY - HOMEOWNERS
- FIRST RESPONDERS -
TREE REMOVAL
COMPANIES - AND
INSURANCE COMPANIES
HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY
ASSESSING AND
CLEANING UP THE
DAMAGE.
2:30 THURSDAY MORNING.
"Swoosh. Bang. Boom. Everything
started cracking and falling.
Banging off the roof and onto
the
side of the house."
HOMEOWNER RICH FENNER
HAD NO IDEA JUST WHAT
THOSE SOUNDS WERE THAT
STARTLED ALL OF MAPLE
STREET IN DOUGLAS - UNTIL
THEY COULD ASSESS THE
DAMAGE THEMSELVES AT
DAYBREAK.
OUR SKYDRONE 12 SHOWING
YOU FROM THE AIR - THE
PRECISE PATH AN EF-1
TORNADO CARVED THROUGH
THE NEIGHBORHOOD - WHAT
WAS ONCE FOREST - NOW A
FIELD - WHAT WAS ONCE A
BACKYARD - NOW FALLEN
TREES.
"It was over in probably 30
seconds.
Maybe a minute. Just one big
woosh and then a big flash of
light
like a bomb went off."
A DOUGLAS FIRE LIEUTENANT
GAVE US A TOUR OF THE
DAMAGE - AS CREWS WORKED
TO REMOVE DEBRIS.
ASIDE FROM A TREE CRASHING
ONTO RICH FENNER'S CAR - HE
AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS
BLOCK OF MAPLE STREET
WERE TRAPPED AT HOME - DUE
TO DOWNED POWER LINES ON
THE STREET.
THAT INCLUDED FENNER'S
NEIGHBORS - WHOSE HOUSE
WAS OTHERWISE PRACTICALLY
UNTOUCHED BY THE TORNADO.
"Extremely fortunate. Extremely
fortunate. When you see our
neighbors and all the
destruction in
their backyard, it's amazing
there's
nothing more on our house."
IN ALL - THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE TWEETED
ABOUT A DOZEN HOMES WERE
DAMAGED IN DOUGLAS - THEIR
INVESTIGATION TRAVELED TO
PARTS OF NORTHBRIDGE -
UXBRIDGE - AND UPTON.
THAT'S WHERE WE FOUND
TREES UPROOTED - AND THIS
ROOF - RIPPED OFF THE TOP OF
THE HOUSE.
RESIDENTS SAYING THEY WERE
GRATEFUL NO ONE WAS HURT.
(KW)
NEW AT 6 TONIGHT - HEAR
FROM A MAN WHO LIVES
JUST A FEW HOUSES
DOWN - ON WHAT HE AND
HIS FAMILY HEARD THIS
MORNING - THAT WAS
CHARACTERISTIC OF A
TORNADO.
LIVE IN UPTON, I'M KAIT
WALSH, EYEWITNESS
NEWS.
CAUSED DAM
TORNADOES THAT
CAUSED DAMAGE IN FOUR
MASSACHUSETTS TOWNS
JUST OVER THE RHODE
ISLAND BORDER, SEEN
HERE ON THE PINPOINT
NEWSTRACKER.
(MM)
SKY DRONE 12 SHOWS
YOU SOME OF THE
DAMAGE IN THE TOWN OF
DOUGLAS ---- WHERE THE
STORM TOOK DOWN----
TREES AND DAMAGED
HOMES EARLY THIS
MORNING.
IT WAS JUST ABOUT A
WEEK AGO THAT----
ANOTHER CONFIRMED
TORNADO TOUCHED
DOWN IN ASHFORD
CONNECTICUT ---
THIS IS VIDEO OF THE
DAMAGE FROM THAT
TORNADO, WHICH THE
NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE WAS AN--- E-F-
ZERO.
THEY SAY THE ONES THAT
HIT MASSACHUSETTS THIS
MORNING --- WERE
STRONGER.
(HE)
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER KAIT WALSH
JOINS US LIVE FROM
UPTON WITH A LOOK AT
THE DAMAGE.
TONIGHT WE ARE SEEING
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANIES ARRIVE HERE
IN UPTON TO START THE
PROCESS OF FIXING
HOMES DAMAGED BY THE
EARLY MORNING
TORNADOES.
FORTUNATELY NO ONE
WAS HURT- JUST
SHOCKED THESE STORMS
WERE ACTUALLY
TORNADOES - SOMETHING
WE DONT OFTEN SEE IN
THE NORTHEAST.
IN LESS THAN ONE MINUTE...
"It scared everybody a little
bit."
THE LANDSCAPE OF UPTON
AND DOUGLAS - WAS CHANGED
- FOREVER.
TWO EF-1 TORNADOES CARVED
A DEEP - BUT VERY SPECIFIC
PATH OF DESTRUCTION
THROUGH SEVERAL TOWNS OF
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS.
JASON MOFFITT SAID HIS SONS
LIKENED THE EARLY MORNING
SOUND OF THE WIND - TO A
TRAIN BLOWING BY - A
TELLTALE SIGN OF A TORNADO.
"The Moffitts said the wind was
so
strong overnight that a table
that
used to be at that firepit by
those
chairs went all the way across
the
lawn and got destroyed over
here."
IN A NORMAL STORM - YOU'D
SEE DAMAGE IN ENTIRE
NEIGHBORHOODS - BUT A
TORNADO IS DIFFERENT -
DAMAGING HOMES ONLY IN ITS
NARROW PATH.
RIPPING OFF THIS ROOF - BUT
SAVING THE HOUSES NEARBY.
EYEWITNESS NEWS FOLLOWED
THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE INVESTIGATORS TO
NEARBY DOUGLAS - WHERE
THE FIRE CHIEF SAID THEY
DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE
DAMAGE TO A DOZEN HOMES
ON MAPLE STREET - UNTIL
HOURS AFTER THE TORNADO.
"It confirms what a hearty group
of
people we have here in Douglas.
Nothing phases them."
RESIDENTS HELPED EACH
OTHER CLEAR DEBRIS - WHILE
THEY WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR
YARDS BY FALLEN POWER
LINES IN THE STREET.
A BUSY AFTERNOON FOR
HOMEOWNERS - FIRST
RESPONDERS - AND TREE
REMOVAL SERVICES - WORKING
IN THE RAIN TO CUT UP THE
TREES.
THAT HOUSE YOU JUST
SAW - IS THIS ONE BEHIND
US - THIS MORNING YOU
COULDNT EVEN SEE THE
FRONT OF IT THROUGH
THE TREES.
EVERYONE HAS BEEN
VERY BUSY CLEANING UP
TODAY.
LIVE IN UPTON, IM KAIT