Hey Connecticut, our everything hurts

LOL! FAK! I must have been daydreaming and didn't see you. I usually try to look at the other side and see if I spot you.

 

Anyone here a Polaris dealer??

 

Everyone still alive

 

Yup.

Were you at work during the big storm?

 

Yessir watched the whole thing

 

This shit was no fucking joke, let me tell you.

Picked up my son from daycare, and dropped him off at my in-laws, who already had no power. Wife was already there. Took me a while just to get from daycare to my in-laws, which is normally only about 5-10 minutes.

Was getting texts from two of my neighbors that shit was BAD in Brookfield. One wasn't home, but said his FIL was at his house, had a tree come down and take out his car and part of the garage. Other neighbor said I had a "nice surprise" for when I got home. Big trees down in my yard, but couldn't see if house was hit or not. Panic ensued... This was happening when I was trying to get home. Road was closed off, so went to in-laws. Grabbed the wife, and tried to go home to asses damages, and get clothes, etc. Took almost two hours to get home. Every road I took was closed off, traffic was fucking crazy. Almost has a fucking panic attack because my mind was racing and fearing the worst. When I say shit was bad, it was fucking BAD. Brookfield already got declared a disaster and state of emergency. Tons of trees down, downed power lines, house taken out, cars, the works. I bet the entire town doesn't have power, or if not the entire town, at least almost all of it. I didn't even see my entire road because part of it was closed off. Thankfully nothing hit my house, but I have some massive clean up to do. Huge trees down, all over my yard, ripped down power lines... Called out of work for tomorrow already so I can go home and clean up as much as possible, to be ready for WHENEVER they start to get to the power lines, which who knows when that will be. At my parents house right now, who live in Danbury, and looks like nothing happened here. Probably going to camp out here for quite some time due to no power, and the kiddos.

This was some scary fucking shit. Wife cried historically just because of the amount of trees down, not even because the house got hit. It's really overwhelming. I'm at a fucking loss for words my self. I don't know what to think or feel to be honest. Relieved on one side because it's just "yard cleanup", but mad/sad because of my neighbor's house getting hit and the scale of things as far as how bad it is. I'll likely be off TW all day tomorrow... stay safe everyone if you were hit by this.

 

Ya man definitely no joke the true power of mother nature is unfathomable glad to hear you and the family are safe atleast, the rest can be figured out later. Best wishes

 

Thanks Jon! Yeah, fucking nuts. Some pics:

 

That's absolutely insane

 

Two big ass trees ripped right out by the roots. That's the craziest shit I've ever seen. Actually, driving around, trying to get home was surreal. Felt like I was in a movie... Everything seemed unreal...

 

The tornado touched down about a quarter mile from my Sister's house in Oxford.
Lots of stuff down. Be safe.

 

Morning all.

@Cativelense, be careful with those leaning trees. Them's called widow makers. No trees down in the yards but several down the street. Luckily I have power.

 

Man, that SW part of the state got hammered!

Hope everyone is okay.

 

Nuno keep up the faith. I can understand what you're going through , when I worked at the phone company we had to do restoration work for the phone lines when the tornado went through Waterbury , that would have probably been in the early 90s ,assume every wire is live .good luck your friends are with you.
As bad as it is there are people that got hit worse that you did.
TOMB

 

Wow, at least mother nature was nice enough to saw the tree a bit for you!

 

Good luck everyone. Be safe with the chainsaws

 

Did you get any of that monster sized hail?

 

We had peanut m&m hail, above the center of town got hammered with big haik. Bad enough to blow out windows and damage siding. I pulled the truck into the garage just in time

 

Got what I think is the big shit taken care of, sort of. The tree that was across my yard is chopped up. Cut up the other that was partially on the road. Wires are back up and attached to the house since they got ripped off. What's left to do is chop up a shitload of branches that fell behind the shed, and the big monster tree that fell on the side into the wetlands. Just gonna leave it there, but gonna at least trim the branches so it doesn't look like shit. Now we wait for power to come back... Whenever that may be..

My big ass husqvarna 460 rancher fucked shit up. Love it!

 

Bring back memories of living in storrs...bon fire!!