The Revere tornado and the most Boston news report evah

I used to play in an adult instructional/rec league at Cronin. We got off the ice just before midnight the night before, I couldn’t believe it when I woke up and read part of the roof had been ripped off.

Before that tornado I was never really that aware that weather could be so micro targeting.

If you look at the intersection of rt 16 and Broadway and draw a box four blocks out each way around it you get four quadrants. NE, NW, SE and SW. The north ones being in Revere and the south ones being in Chelsea. I lived in the SW quadrant and my power flickered and it was real crazy outside so I figured I would just be late to work so I called in that I'd be late.

I left my house and went to go to work but lots of streets were closed. Being the local city councillor at the time I wanted to figure out was going on so I made my way to the SE corner and saw some downed light posts, a tree I believe, some damage to a few walls. It seemed pretty messy but more like a really bad storm.

So I drive to work in Medford abd the tv is playing, my boss is shocked I was in. He saw there was a tornado and knew my power went out, he assumed I wasn't coming in... A tornado was news to me so I called a few people in the zone and they had no clue. Then I saw the helicopter footage and that it really started doing damage at the rink as you passed from the SE into the NE quadrant and did most of its damage in the NE.

I imagine it would be scary knowing there was a tornado , but being about three blocks from one without knowing it was a wake up call for me.

I still have my 2014 FB post with pictures from the SE corner where I chalked it up to a microburst and just told people to avoid the streets because of closures.