BARRE, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Storms tore through New England Tuesday, and the Barre police say their town was hit hard.
Lighting struck the Barre Congregational Church weather vane. Fortunately, they'd just replaced that weather vane, so it did its job and no one was hurt. Hail the size of wine corks and trees down on power lines were just two things residents experience during the storm. They also saw spinning clouds that residents say looked like a funnel cloud.
"Everyone just started panicking," one resident said.
In this interview, you'll see only on FOX25, Staffing Firm Specialist Stephen Scavone said it was just an average afternoon at his company's Hardwick offices on the Barre line when, around 3 p.m., he and his co-workers looked out of their window and saw what they also described as a funnel cloud, and it appeared to be headed right for their company baseball field!
"And as the funnel cloud started forming, it was forming up in the sky and it was settling right over here by the baseball field and then right over the tree line looked like it was about to touch down. So that's when me and everyone else were like "we're out of here,'" Scavone said.
Barre's police chief says there were reports of a funnel cloud that touched down in the Barre Falls Dam, but it is difficult to see whether there was damage consistent with one because it's such a heavily wooded area.
The police chief says engineers will be out in the dam to assess the damage, and it will be up to the National Weather Service in the coming days to determine if in fact those were funnel clouds.
