Reading, PA Devestating Tornado, Jan 1889

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Post by gaw » Sat. Jan. 09, 2016 11:07 am

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

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Sat. Jan. 09, 2016 11:30 am

Wow, back in the days when newspapers did real journalism

 
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Post by tsb » Sat. Jan. 09, 2016 12:44 pm

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.


 
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Post by hank2 » Mon. Jan. 18, 2016 12:20 am

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

 
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Post by LehighStoker » Mon. Jan. 18, 2016 10:11 am

Wow. Thanks for sharing!

 
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Post by blrman07 » Mon. Jan. 18, 2016 10:34 am

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.

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