SPLIT TOPIC: Tornado hits Brooklyn! (PH/CH)

stacey · September 2010

We got hit bad here in PH tree fell on my mother in laws house! Thank goodness no one was hurt. I have never seen anything like this in Brooklyn. But I truly love my neighbors who were out there helping each other!

crustythor · September 2010

plaza street is a mess!

voodoonyc · September 2010

crustythor wrote: plaza street is a mess!

Holy crap, that's intense. I can't believe the concrete buckled! There are so many trees down here in Carroll Gardens. Brooklyn's landscape was devastated today.

bobmarvin · September 2010

We were lucky in PLG. No damage on my block (Midwood St., bet. Bedford & Rogers. The storm damage seems to have been on the northern side of the terminal moraine, just past our neighborhood.

inpixels · September 2010

My Empire of Dirt is still my favorite Brooklyn Tornado story
http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/37273/

mr. met · September 2010

OMG LOOKS LIKE STEVE IS BACK ON THE STREET

CROWN HEIGHTS UNITE AGAINST THIS MENACE

opossumqueen · September 2010

Wow, the northern end of Prospect Park got hit pretty hard.

bill c · September 2010

i was bicycling up vanderbilt @ approx. st mark's when it hit. had to take shelter at schoolyard at sterling as it was nearly impossible to see, all kinds of shit was flying around, intense winds. a whole new meaning to "cycling."

bkchickie · September 2010

Roz wrote: SMW: Good on yer for stepping up to the plate! Check in with the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. They can offer lots of advice as well as hook you up with a local project called Prospect Heights Trees, aka Prospect Heights Urban Forest Initiative.

There's also a "Citizen Pruner" course that just started at Borough Hall. Not sure about the details or whether one can join at this point but I daresay this storm will be top of their agenda at the next class.

I'm not sure that I have a lot of time to give to a project like this, but I could certainly make a monetary donation. We lost at least three trees on Plaza Street alone, and maybe one more on Butler Place. I love the trees, and I want to see them restored!

mac1 · September 2010

Subject: Horseshoe crabs came out of the sky!

During the tornado, horseshoe crabs came out of the sky and landed on Underhill Ave. :

armchair_warrior · September 2010

waited most of the morning and noon and some afternoon for the neighbors lot to see if the owner shows up. i knew it was a slim chance he would damn you holiday!!