Again, the pattern of separating catastrophic weather news stories from each other , downplaying them, or not reporting them at all across the country continues...last night in Virginia-baseball size hail (so typical now with abrupt heavy rains) fell...

In Ohio yesterday, a microburst that ripped up the area of Hamilton-

 we had something similar here in western Massachusetts in 2013  where about 100 trees were sliced off the top and others were pushed over on the nearby Mt Tom and some homes at the base...completely freakish and yet reported by 'experts' ( refer to the Laurie Anderson  song/vid of a few posts ago)as rare occurrences but nothing to concern oneself over...