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Tornadoes of Historic Proportions Sweep Through Small Mass. Towns By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
A home on Washington Street still stands, but just barely, in the midst of wreckage from the storm.
When John Burson started his timber cutting business called Rocky Mountain Wood with just a chain saw and a pickup truck in 1979, he never expected this. Then again, two, to-possibly seven, nearly simultaneous tornadoes had never hit the Wilbraham, Mass., area before. Beyond the town-wide piles of destroyed homes, the hundreds of downed trees, the debris that had once been buildings filling the streets of this sleepy western Massachusetts town and 19 others around it, there was a woman alone, isolated and sealed in her own home by fallen trees, at the end of a driveway that was 900 feet long. “Wilbraham Police Chief (Allen) Stratton had called upon us to help remove trees from a woman’s home in town. She was does that hit 20 cities and towns in a flash. Debris clearers trapped inside and could not get out,” said Maryellen Burson have come from several states to help. From that single chainsaw and pickup, John Burson’s of Rocky Mountain Wood. “Her driveway was 900 feet long and covered with downed trees and wires. She was diabetic company now has a fleet of 15 trucks, from tractor trailers to and the EMTs and the ambulance could not get close to the delivery trucks, 11 trailers with loaders, slashers, skidders, debarker, grinders, fellerhouse to get to her. bunchers, excavators and “Rocky Mountain Wood more to do clearing, logcleared as much as they ging and retail mulch yard could to make it within work. walking distance for the The company is using EMTs,” added Burson. every piece of it to clear “She was in there for three their town. to four hours. There was “John Burson’s philosojust no way to get to her.” phy is, and always has Rocky Mountain Wood been, that land clearing and is one of dozens of subconlogging should be done tracted companies in the with care and complete Springfield, Mass., area that have been working for Soini brought in six logger trucks called ‘Forwarders.’ customer satisfaction,” weeks to clear the multi- “They are big machines, strong machines, that can tear added Maryellen Burson. million-dollar damage tangled trees apart so the other trucks could move them “And RMW works very caused by the June 1 torna- out,” according to Soini. see tOrNAdO page 4