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SPLIT TOPIC: Tornado! hits brooklyn (PS) — Brooklynian

SPLIT TOPIC: Tornado! hits brooklyn (PS)

camaysar
camaysar
edited November -1 in Park Slope
WOW! A bit after 5pm it was just like a sudden 5-minute hurricane at 9th st. and 7th ave. Never saw anything like it in Brooklyn. Very powerful and dramatic!
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  • threecee
    threecee

    Subject: tornado?!?

    i think it must have been very close to Dean St and 6th.
  • mrs. h.
    mrs. h.
    Yes, crazy. We're three doors down from there, and part of the top of our brick building blew down onto the fire escape--I think it was either struck by lightning or we had a brief tornado. And a bathtub worth of water blew in all the windows in like seconds. Unbelievable.
  • kelton flencher
    kelton flencher
    Tree down on 11th btw 5/6. FYI
  • MOD
    MOD
    It was a mini tornado!! within 30 seconds it had flooded our kitchen and living room. INTENSE!! Seriously, 2 inches of water in the short time we were able to run and close all the windows. It sprayed my kitchen table which was 4 feet away from the window.

    Note to self: keep windows closed when storm is approaching.
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    Union St and 8th ave is a mess.

    The intersection is a mess


    http://whatyourdonotknowbecauseyouarenotme.blogspot.com/2010/09/tornado-in-brooklyn.html
  • MOD
    MOD
    No doubt, that was a tornado-like storm, ambulances and fire dept is all over the area now. Heavy shit on the roof took off across the street!
  • MOD
    MOD
    If you are driving do NOT come anywhere near Atlantic/Flatbush/5th or 7th aves

    It's a hot mess of car accidents or just plain traffic congestion..
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    It turned absolutely BLACK in about 10 seconds down on 16th St and 7th Ave. Neighbor just arrived home and said that trees are down on 10th St near 7th Ave and someone was pulled from a crushed vehicle. Sirens everywhere.
  • gabbahey
    gabbahey
    So fast! One minute I was shutting the windows, then the rain came down in SHEETS! The old oak trees on my block were bending like palm trees and suddenly started whipping around. That's when I got a call from a relative to get down to the basement.
  • puply
    puply

    Subject: Scary stuff

    I had left a business meeting at 6th and Union when I noticed low, dark clouds zooming fast. The temperature had turned faintly warm.

    I walked quickly towards home and had barely reached when all hell broke loose. Violent rain, furious winds, thunder and lightening. I've never experienced such weather in Brooklyn, it was scary.

    I hope no one got seriously injured. I cannot stop thinking about an old lady I saw walking around in 7th avenue a bit earlier..
  • MOD
    MOD
    So crazy!!
  • grievousangel
    grievousangel
    Front windows were busted out of Brooklyn Industries (corner of 7th av and 9th)... one of the employees said a delivery guy had to be taken to the hospital due to bad cuts.
  • stoneybrook
    stoneybrook
    FOX news picked up the story and just had a blurb about it.
  • roadifyrocks
    roadifyrocks
    6th Ave in Park Slope seems to have been hit the worst as far as I can tell. FDNY is making their way down the street chopping up downed trees. The wind has permanently changed 6th Ave.
  • brooklynisbetter
    brooklynisbetter

    Subject: Crazy Rooftop Vid of the Tornado Sweeping into Park Slope

    @fabrikstudios just posted this amazing video -
  • mita
    mita
    Intense!!

    I live on 5th st & 7th ave and looked outside during it and saw this poor little girl in shorts running with her backpack. The wind almost whipped her right off the ground at one point.

    It also drenched my cat in about 10 seconds who was sitting on the sofa by the windows.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    AND I CAN"T GET DELIVERY TONIGHT!!!!
  • bluecat
    bluecat
    The steeple fell off Memorial Presbyterian Church corner of 7th Ave & St John's Place! Smashed a car on the way down. Anyone have a photo?
  • daahookup21
    daahookup21
    8th street between 4th and 5th ave trees all down on that block.

    I just made it home in time to. As soon as you couldn't see out the window i was headed down to the basement.

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  • mita
    mita
    This is on 5th st between 5th & 6th ave! Quality is bad due to crappy iPhone camera.

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  • bcodsnpkslope
    bcodsnpkslope
    i spent most of the evening cutting the trees blocking 11 st bet 4/5 aves as we have several older people on the street in poor health in case an ambulance needed to get through.. four cars bought it three are salvagable luckilly they missed mine
  • bcodsnpkslope
    bcodsnpkslope
    bluecat wrote: The steeple fell off Memorial Presbyterian Church corner of 7th Ave & St John's Place! Smashed a car on the way down. Anyone have a photo?
    and to think in the early sixties it survived a plane crash only to fall to this
  • danny hellman
    danny hellman
    And this after all the damage to the trees from last winter's heavy snows.....sad.

    Was it last year or the year before that when there was ANOTHER tornado that caused damage in Ditmas Park and Bay Ridge? I haven't made a study of New York City's weather, but I can't remember ever hearing about tornadoes in this area when I was growing up, (hurricanes, sure....but tornadoes?). Is this a taste of what we have to look forward to as the planet continues to heat up?
  • squindar
    squindar
    that one was in August 2007, wind speeds of 111 to 135 mph
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    5 points will be awarded to anyone who is patient enough to count how many times these guys say "Dude" in their video about the storm.

  • whyfi
    whyfi
    whynot_31 wrote: 5 points will be awarded to anyone who is patient enough to count how many times these guys say "Dude" in their video about the storm.

    Man, the tree in that vid got fucking battered at the end - absolutely chewed up.
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    WhyFi wrote: [quote=whynot_31]5 points will be awarded to anyone who is patient enough to count how many times these guys say "Dude" in their video about the storm.

    Man, the tree in that vid got fucking battered at the end - absolutely chewed up.

    Carroll and 4th?????
  • MOD
    MOD


  • boygabriel
    boygabriel
    So that's what it looks like inside a tornado.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    ^shit. i'm going to have to go check on some particular trees.
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