I found this interesting. I never heard of it until today there was a little note about it on accuweather.com. If something like this happens nowadays it is most certainly man made climate change. I never realized they had severe weather like this back then.
http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/1829/re ... ,-jan-1889
http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/1714/re ... o-jan-1889
Reading, PA Devestating Tornado, Jan 1889
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Wow, back in the days when newspapers did real journalism
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Pa is a hot bed of weather disasters. Floods mostly from tropical storms. Agnus is 72 was the worst for us.
The local church was flattened by a tornado in 1922. ( Amityville,Pa ). If I find a link, I'll post it.
The local church was flattened by a tornado in 1922. ( Amityville,Pa ). If I find a link, I'll post it.
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Interesting article, gaw. I never knew of that tornado in the city of Reading.
I recall two, more recent tornadoes in Berks county. One in the early 80's, outside of Topton, pa. Mostly uninhabited hillsides, but put some trees down on houses and cars. The next one was 1998. It just skipped over the house I now live in and continued about 5 miles to Lyons, Pa. I believe that one took out about a quarter of the village.
https://youtu.be/EEtqLwwPtk4
I recall two, more recent tornadoes in Berks county. One in the early 80's, outside of Topton, pa. Mostly uninhabited hillsides, but put some trees down on houses and cars. The next one was 1998. It just skipped over the house I now live in and continued about 5 miles to Lyons, Pa. I believe that one took out about a quarter of the village.
https://youtu.be/EEtqLwwPtk4
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Wow. Thanks for sharing!
Now what in the world would make you think that tornado's hurricanes, cyclones, earthquakes, etc etc etc are only an our time occurrence? Tornado Alley was named tornado alley long before we discovered oil and other such ozone and greenhouse gas polluters.