The Wallingford tornado of 1878 took less than two minutes, but it
killed at the rate of one person per second. Twisters in Connecticut are
incredibly rare, but they're often disastrous and sometimes deadly. The
Windsor tornado of 1979 destroyed a field of aircraft that had survived
World War II. The 1787 Wethersfield tornado ripped off a barn roof in
New Britain, traveled on to Newington and finally subsided in
Wethersfield after destroying a family farm. Locals remember the 1989
cyclone that ripped through Hamden and cost the state millions of
dollars in repairs. Join local author Robert Hubbard as he shares the
tales of these natural disasters and those who witnessed them.