Big Storm Today

Check this out: Lordship section of Stratford hit hard by storm

"(06/24/10) STRATFORD - The Lordship section of Stratford was also hit hard by Thursday’s fierce storm that wreaked havoc on Bridgeport.

The storm downed large trees onto yards all along Crown Street. Wires are down and power outages were also reported.

One Crown Street resident tells News 12 Connecticut he saw the funnel cloud in Bridgeport.

Residents have started the cleanup process."

We used to live right around the corner from here. The storm passed very quickly while we were at the orthopaedic's office getting Lanie's cast off (and then, unfortunately, a new one on, but that's a different story).

UPDATE: The news is confirming that it was, indeed, a tornado. We drove through there this morning and the damage is far more severe than I could have imagined. Here are a few pics I snapped while driving that don't begin to do it justice.

UPDATE 2: Just spoke with our old neighbor to make sure they are all ok. She said half of their tree fell onto her son's car. Our other neighbor's tree fell and completely demolished the back porch of our old house. She said another car down the street was crushed by a tree. The good news is that no one was hurt.