Bad Weather in Central Massachusetts This Week

Between last Saturday and yesterday, residents of Massachusetts have probably had it with the rain and wind for a while. Saturday brought nothing but hard rain all day long, and it made it very difficult to get anywhere. Having a baby to tote around, keeping dry is a hard task when there isn't a break in the rain for 15 hours out of the day.

Wednesday was even worse. The day started with heavy rain falls in the morning, so heavy that my windshield wipers couldn't even keep up with it. People were pulling off of the roads around me due to lack of vision through the rain. The heaviest part of the rain started to slow down around 11 a.m., but even then as the sun started to poke through the clouds, bursts of heavy rain started coming down and then stopping quickly. Around 1 p.m., the sky was blue and the rain was over, but the winds started to pick up. The winds actually reached a whopping 54 mph causing large tree limbs into the streets and tree's to bend in half.

For those who are residents in the Worcester area of Massachusetts, we are much scarred from last year's ice and wind storm which caused more damage than people outside of the Worcester County could even believe without seeing it with their own eyes. Last year's wind storm caused houses to be destroyed by tree limbs ripping through their windows and roofs and having actual full trees fall on their house and cars leaving people without electricity for up to 3 weeks. Therefore, when residents of this area, such as me and my family find themselves in a repeat wind storm, the fear of damage comes back to mind.

One of the largest problems with yesterday's storm was that the trees that were damaged last year in the ice storm are still not completely healthy and as sturdy as they once were. Therefore having a birch tree in my front yard that happened to be flattened on the ground during last year's ice storm, and then watching it start to bend back over again leaning into towards my house again yesterday caused me to leave my house with fear of having the tree coming through our bedroom or living room window.

Thankfully, the damage our street experienced wasn't nearly as bad as some surrounding neighborhoods. People in the other surrounding areas weren't as lucky as me and my neighbors. Many of them are dealing with major power losses due to trees lying on their power lines, as well as tree's blocking their entire street.

Storms in New England seem to be getting increasingly bad over the past year. It seems that having major hurricanes and nor'easters have taken a break on us over the past 10-15 years, but after last year's storms, this past summer full of rain and these wind storms starting back up again, we may be in the middle of a bad weather pattern that could last for who knows how long.