MassLive.com visits damaged areas in Wilbraham, which has now suffered from two devastating storms this summer. Watch video
Nearly two months after a devastating tornado, several Massachusetts communities, including Wilbraham, were struck by another bout of violent weather in the form of tree-blasting microbursts.
One area hit harder by the microbursts than by the tornado was the Country Club of Wilbraham, where half of the property had been ripped apart by falling and uprooted trees.
General Manager Dean Helm took MassLive.com around the site where crews from Northern Tree Service were working to clear massive piles of brush and fallen tree trunks.
Down the street from the Country Club, on Tinkham Road, houses are still covered in blue tarps where falling trees crushed roofs during the June 1 tornado. Residents here told us that compared to that storm, these microbursts were less severe.
At Minnechaug Regional High School a massive brush pile is slowly and steadily depleted by workers from Northern, and the Athletics department is working to re-establish playing fields and sports equipment, which was damaged during the microburst storm and the tornado.