And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

I’ve been mopping up water in our garden level apartment for the past few hours. We have a sliding glass door and at the high point there were a few inches of water behind the glass, like an aquarium, and water was seeping in around it and under the front door. Not fun.

Queens Boulevard in Maspeth/Corona is a literal river at the moment. Bus fully flooded driving through, multiple cars stuck in the water. Absolutely insane. pic.twitter.com/LuSL9uWCEl

— Joe English (@JoeEEnglish) September 2, 2021

blimey

Surf's Up, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm
Aboard a tidal wave

Hope ilxors and their abodes are ok.

We had a little water in one spot in our basement (which happens from time to time) and lost power for about 10 minutes. We've been on LI for 20 years and that was maybe the heaviest rain I can remember.

No flooding where I live in NJ, but NJ Transit trains aren’t currently running and I was supposed to go into NYC today for the first time in 19 months, something I was frankly a little apprehensive about, so… *happy shrug*

Friend of mine in NJ has shared pictures of a this place nearby which was hit by a tornado

https://patch.com/new-jersey/westdeptford/tornado-warning-effect-gloucester-county

Mostly good here, thanks, although haven’t gone out to check on downed trees yet and, more importantly, this is impinging on my aging parents thread activity.

8 dead in NYC, 7 in queens. A few of them not far from me. I live on the top of a hill in the 5th floor of a building so flooding is no issue for me luckily.

C was determined to drive into the city for an important pick-up today, with a pull-behind trailer, going to Gowanus. I tried to dissuade him but ultimately failed. Bon voyage!

Just emailed the dude I was supposed to be meeting and cancelled. Just as well; I'm right at the finish line on a *major* project and I'd rather be doing that anyway.

Looking at local facebook group and there are some crazy pictures from the storm last night. Our area is right on the LI Sound. Part of the road along the water collapsed and fell into the harbor. In another part of town, a cliff below some homes collapsed on to the beach below. Homes looked ok but could have to make some v v expensive (and not covered by insurance) repairs to shore up the cliff. Flooding everywhere.

Not NY, but photos from Philly of the Schuykill are insane.

Grew up in Philly (Roxborough) and saw many a big flood. But seeing this picture of cars on the Green Lane bridge with the Schuylkill this high seems unwise. I just don't get it. pic.twitter.com/AQEItIJhhE

— Matt Miziorko (@SnarkyEM) September 2, 2021

It normally looks like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lane_Bridge#/media/File:Green_Lane_Bridge_2020.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Green_Lane_Bridge_2020.jpg/2560px-Green_Lane_Bridge_2020.jpg

goddamn

Williamsburg, inland (near lorimer/metropolitan) and we didn’t sustain any flooding but things were certainly worse not far from here.

amazingly, little island is open tonight. curious to see how taking the train to get there works out.

Preliminary Ida Storm Totals & Stats

💧Central Park: 7.19"
💧JFK: 2.77"
💧LaGuardia: 6.89"
💧Islip: 2.63"
💧Newark: 8.44"
💧Bridgeport, CT: 5.94"

Wednesday was the wettest day on record for Newark and LaGuardia, 3rd wettest at Bridgeport, and 5th wettest at Central Park.

— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) September 2, 2021

I'm gonna lose it. pic.twitter.com/50PiPKt3Ju

— Dwight Rhinosoros (@rhinosoros) September 2, 2021

Flash Gordon level shit

BOOM!

⚡️⛈🌩

The hail entered the bar. I picked some up and it melted

I'm here (briefly) and it's as if God flipped the switch.

So weird, on and off like that

Felt the vibration bration

I had gone out to get the papers get the papers

We’ve been getting a lot of God-flipping events lately. I just tune that dude out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHu0wUS-ow

love when the temp drops 15° in an hour

Yeah, fuck temperature here comes the sun doo do do

I was sort of napping. Very confusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W32OAvOU1wU

Have no idea why I posted that. Anyway came to post no thunder or rain (although maybe there was some earlier) just some sort of ominous wind out there.

It is happening again.

TCB in a flash.

I thought for sure that the power plant in LIC had exploded

For a while I kept seeing the lightning before hearing any thunder and was wondering if there was some kind of mirror truck outside on the street.

That was fucking nuts. I too had the exploding power plant theory.

I’ve also never heard the “timpani roll” part of the crash be so long and so deep

woke me up. longest sustained thunder I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJVQN9pK1k
#onethread

kept setting off car alarms on my street

I actually would like a meteorological explainer for why this morning’s was so crazy, has anyone seen one?

The parakeets were freaked ftr

https://gothamist.com/news/awoken-by-thunder-blame-thermal-inversion

Thanks! I had checked gothamist earlier this morning before that was up

started hummin’ songs from 1962

Ain’t it funny

Under severe watch but right now still the calm before, I guess.

HI DERE

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much sustained lightning. Just hours of lightning.

No storm other than a drizzle, just an f-ton of fireworks going off.