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

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!

plaza street is a mess!

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.

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.

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

OMG LOOKS LIKE STEVE IS BACK ON THE STREET

CROWN HEIGHTS UNITE AGAINST THIS MENACE

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

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."

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!

Subject: Horseshoe crabs came out of the sky!

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

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!!

Subject: Re: Horseshoe crabs came out of the sky!

Mac1 wrote: During the tornado, horseshoe crabs came out of the sky and landed on Underhill Ave. :

I was just gonna post about that. How crazy?!?!
http://nataliepo.typepad.com/nataliepo/2010/09/the-brooklyn-cyclone.html

Subject: Re: Horseshoe crabs came out of the sky!

[quote="Mac1"]During the tornado, horseshoe crabs came out of the sky and landed on Underhill Ave. :

disastrous aftermath reveals plans for

atlantic yards affordable housing units

too soon?

Naive. Too naive. Naive like an ACORN

september's stormy aftermath unveils

rev. herbert daughty's plans

for arena/community prayer station

it was day like any other

then witnesses said the sky turned an eerie green

but no one expected the path of blight

that would follow