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Southbridge Toddler's Take On The Tornado: 'Things Got Broken'

SOUTHBRIDGE (CBS) - Southbridge residents are surveying the damage from Wednesday's tornado.

Neighbors are rallying to help each other clean up. As they plow forward with clean-up, they are also processing what they've lived through.

And for one 2-year-old, like many others much older than him, it's like nothing he's ever seen.

Harrison Wilson can see his toppled swing-set in the middle of a devastated neighborhood. He points out that "things got broken."

WBZ-TV's Peg Rusconi reports

Two days ago, he huddled in the basement with his mother as a tornado roared over them.

"And I want to tell you one more time, someone was screaming and someone was crashing and someone got puffy ears," he said.

Harrison was talking about the ear-popping drop in atmospheric pressure while the tornado tore past them.

"But that was just the wind," he gleefully stated.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Mark Katic reports from neighboring Sturbridge

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Up the hill at Southbridge airport, that wind flipped a dozen planes and blew parts of hangars across town.

"You don't grasp the intensity of one of those storms until you see something like this," said Southbridge resident Jim Latour.

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