History of Connecticut's Deadliest Tornadoes - Book

History of Connecticut's Deadliest Tornadoes - BookTwisters in Connecticut are incredibly rare, but they're often disastrous and sometimes deadly. The Wallingford tornado of 1878 took less than two minutes, but it killed at the rate of one person per second. 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

• Twisters in Connecticut are incredibly rare, but they're often disastrous and sometimes deadly.
• The Wallingford tornado of 1878 took less than two minutes, but it killed at the rate of one person per second. 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.

About the Author

Robert Hubbard is an associate professor at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, and Kathleen Hubbard is a retired Middletown Public Schools teacher. They are also the authors of Images of America: Middletown. Most of the photographs in Legendary Locals of Middletown come from the collection of the Middlesex County Historical Society.