We took a ride out along NY 5 through Cranesville late this afternoon. The damage is impressive to see. Suddenly approaching Lock 10 and Cranes Hollow Road eastbound, the familiar trees are gone or stripped bare. Large branches on houses all over, and some tarps on roofs. And dozens of utility trucks. We went up Swart Hill Road and then up Greens Corners Road and could see another place where the tornado crossed the road, but it was clearly much weaker by the time it got up there.
The scope of these kinds of things is always easier to grasp when it's in such a familiar place (as was the case with the floods a week ago). I remember going through Mechanicville not long after the tornado there several years ago, but it wasn't a place I knew this well. This was a relatively weak (EF1) tornado and fortunately no one was hurt, but certainly more than enough for people around here.
I'll be taking the Thruway to work tomorrow morning. I'm sure it will not be hard to figure out where the tornado crossed.
