Shortly before 4 p.m. on Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Westwood, a brief but severe thunderstorm swept through the area, dropping what some described as hail the size of ice cubes or marbles, approaching the diameter size of golf balls.
The hail, which began pea-sized, turned into larger hail in a short thunderstorm that lasted around 20 minutes. Hail could be seen on lawns and decks of some Westwood residences and persisted in its icy form for a few hours.
Photo by Westwood Minute. A swath of hail lies on a deck, an hour or two after Thursday's storm passed through Westwood.In Walpole, vehicles driving on Interstate 95 were pushed to the side by strong, brief gusts of wind.
In Brockton, some residents reported rain measuring over 1 inch from the storm.
Patchy rain nearby, with a high of 59 and low of 47 degrees. Overcast during the morning, cloudy in the afternoon, partly cloudy during the evening, overcast overnight.
Of course it must happen, this whole process should have been orchestrated 9 years ago.
Instead, the past and current administration in this Town decided to build a $95M school that wasn't needed!
They put a school before a public safety building.
Of course we need a new fire station now.
And the Town spent $25K to a PR firm to push this through? Of my money? This should either be a conflict of interest or an ethics violation here. Or both. This is outrageous if true!
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