SPLIT TOPIC: Tornado! hits brooklyn (PS)

So this is probably a long shot, but it can't hurt to try...

That vid posted by Mamacita is taken from 18th st. looking at 5th ave. I live in the building at the left of the frame. When I ran out on my terrace to save some plants, the wind and rain blew my glasses right off my face and out into the street somewhere.

Watching that again makes me realize they could be 5 blocks away and totally mangled by now, but if anybody reading this happens to live right around there and has seen a pair of gold-colored wire-rimmed specs laying around please shoot me a message. Thanks!

Sounds about right, Looks like 5th ave in around 10th or so got a good beating.
This is 5th ave closer to N.PS

next to key food/southpaw and the block by Gorilla Coffee

This may be the most photographed storm in history.

Terrible.

One person killed as tornado-like storm, with 100 mph winds, sweeps through New York City

Aline Levakis had just switched seats with husband Billy when she was killed driving their car. A tree had crushed their Lexus sedan.



http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/16/2010-09-16_fastmoving_storm_packing_tornado_conditions_tears_across_new_york_city_with_wind.html

Brownstoner has some more pics, many cars took the brunt of this bad boy.

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/09/brooklyn_tornad.php

There's the street trees...and then there's the backyards
:shock:
http://twitpic.com/2p2pd9

Lots of amazing pics in the Times today.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/17/nyregion/storm-readerphotos.html?ref=nyregion

Any news of tree damage in Prospect Park? As I walked up the avenues last night to check on my car I noticed the damaged seemed to lessen the closer I got to the park. Did PP get spared the worst of the storm?

CB6 wrote: Greetings!

Thankfully yesterday's storm did not take a greater toll on human life, but its impact on our neighborhood's trees is another story altogether. If you suffered any storm-related damage, please take a minute to report it to the City by calling it in to 311. Please encourage your friends and neighbors to do so as well. The more accurately the City can report the extent of the damage, the more likely we will qualify for resources to help make our communities whole again...

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Friday, September 17, 2010 - Report Home and Business Damage to 311

Call 311 to report any damage to your home or business sustained from last night's storm. In order to qualify for disaster relief assistance, New York City must estimate the storm's total effect on city residents and employees. Be prepared to answer questions about the extent of your property's damage.
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I only realized now that my neighbors tree snapped off an enormous limb that is easily 50 ft long across and it landed between 2 of the backyards.

But the best picture I've seen so far

bluecat wrote: Any news of tree damage in Prospect Park? As I walked up the avenues last night to check on my car I noticed the damaged seemed to lessen the closer I got to the park. Did PP get spared the worst of the storm?

I was wondering the same thing. PP had pretty enormous damage a few months ago, so maybe that took out the trees that were ready to go.

As I understand it, 4th/5th/6th Aves got the worst of it in Park Slope.

Online non-emergency street tree removal request form:
http://home2.nyc.gov/apps/311/allServices.htm?requestType=topService&serviceName=Fallen+Tree+or+Branch+Removal+Request

If anyone has a mini chain-saw they'd lend me over the weekend, I got some large debris to clear. Pls pm!

Amazing.



A massive tree lies on its side in Forest Hills after a massive storm slammed New York City.

BCODSNPKSLOPE wrote: 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

Is this you?

NY Post:



SLOPE COPE: A Park Slope resident channels his inner Paul Bunyan last night as he helps his neighbors move trees blocking vehicles on 11th Street.

HA!

^^^ my friend's Irish Setter used to do that whenever it thunderstormed.

Yeah to all the Brooklyn Paul Bunyans!!!!

Waiting on the official report, but it sounds like it will be called EF1 or 2 tornado

This past July 2010 The Bronx had an EF1 confirmed.

From this morning

5th St.


Methodist cafeteria courtyard on 7th St.


And some in the park

From NY1:
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/125611/nat-l-weather-service--two-tornadoes-swept-through-city?ref=nf
2 tornadoes touched down yesterday:
"The National Weather Service said that the first tornado touched down in Park Slope, Brooklyn with winds of 80 mph after 5 p.m. Thursday and traveled two miles northeast. "

Last news report confirms
First tornado touched down in Park Slope, second in Queens
last micro burst hit Middle Village. That's all folks

Just a random link I saw:
http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/914a8029-b4a4-4b41-b3f1-151f38cfb0f0/News/Authorities-2-Tornados-Struck-NYC-During-Storm

Do they know exactly where in the Slope? I always thought that except for the main avenues, the streets in the Slope were to narrow and had too many houses/impediments for anything stronger than an eddy to form.

wow super cute cowardly dog LOL.

I'm pretty impressed with the speed in which the city's cleaned up a lot of the damage from the storm. Big wood chipper came down my block this morning colllecting all the limbs.

eggcream wrote: [quote=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

Is this you?

NY Post:



SLOPE COPE: A Park Slope resident channels his inner Paul Bunyan last night as he helps his neighbors move trees blocking vehicles on 11th Street.

Yes it is... PS i did go out this Friday and but a chainsaw..

The NWS alert gives you the latitude and longitude of where the tornado touched down. According to those coordinates, it touched down on 10th Street about midway between 3rd and 4th Avenue. It traveled NE for two miles and ended in Bed Sty, a few blocks from the Pratt Institute. The maximum path width was 75 yards.

The latitude and longitude of the start point and end point are:

Start: 40.67 N / 73.99 W
End: 40.69 N / 73.96 W

Google maps will allow you to plot those coordinates.

BCODSNPKSLOPE wrote: [quote=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?

and to think in the early sixties it survived a plane crash only to fall to this

here's the pic I mentioned: http://twitpic.com/2p4o1h




Split Thread Note: The off topic of T-shirt sales can be found here.
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=705825#705825

Late to this party. I was seriously concerned for my safety when I got caught walking my dog on President between 8th and PPW. I have never, ever seen such a change in the weather. Once second light rain, next a wall of water and wind with branches falling all around me.

I assume I can be happy because you and the pooch found safety.

Look what happened to the Gowanus Canal. (but not while you are eating!)