Granite Staters Reflect One Year After a Devastating Tornado

On July 24, 2008, in a wooded lot in Deerfield, a tornado began that would travel fifty miles through Epsom, Northwood, Pittsfield, Barnstead, Alton, New Durham, Wolfeboro, Ossipee, Effingham and ending up in Freedom, leaving devastation in its path. Homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of trees were downed and one life was lost. We look back at this tornado with New Hampshire residents whose lives were affected.

Guests

• Mary Stampone, New Hampshire state climatologist and a professor of geography at the University of New Hampshire
• Leslie Van Berkum, co-owner of Van Berkum’s Wholesale Nursery
• Joanne Randall, vice-chair of the Board of Selectmen and Public Information Officer for the town of Epsom
• Bill and Arlene Moffitt, residents of Epsom whose home was destroyed by the tornado
• Fred Borman, UNH Cooperative Extension forester for Rockingham County
• Dan Schroth, a stonewall maker in Pittsfield who created the business Tornadowood from the wood that fell on his land in last year’s tornado