And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

Sounds ominous

Sky hasn’t opened yet, just phones beeping about upcoming flooding potential.

I bumped the hurricane thread already, but this is going to be uncomfortably close (we're NW Nassau county).

I'm in Orange Cty, we're probably going to miss a direct hit but t-storms predicted for about 10 hours tomorrow. We'll take down any loose things outside.

excited for the subway photos

Nature, right?

It’s nature’s way

natures mta

This is going to be a non-event.

It’s already an event for me.

here we go

W/e

Is it bad?

It’s raining

basically. but hey, that's what I thought about Sandy at first too!

how it started: FRANKENSTORM 2012

4 hours later: FRANKENSTORM 2012

I am not in the city right now, but upstate because of AGING PARENTS

Yeah, it's raining out here in the burbs. Track shifted further East, so hoping it is as non-event as possible.

isn't this moving relatively slowly? impact hard to assess til early next week..or am I reading this wrong

according to the national weather service, we are to expect not just heavy rainfall but heavy rainfall impacts

Central park has sucked for the last 3 hours let me tell you

every single time i read this thread title i hear bono intoning 'and the rain poured through the gaping wound' and i just want to run . . . run! into the arms . . . of jimmy mod

Central park has sucked for the last 3 hours let me tell you

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved),

"There's an elephant in the room!"

Jk obv

But was wondering how many posts there would be b4 someone mentioned central park

That many!

Thread title is a based on a slightly misremembered episode title from The Twilight Zone.

oh! sorry jimmy

Lol wild day. Can confirm our mayor doesnt just play a putz on TV

cuomo's gonna demand an emergency extension, isn't he

I doubt it but would not shock me

Still waiting for the heavy rain to start a couple hours north of NYC. :/ Still nothing.

Yeah. Is it coming today or tomorrow?

been raining in brooklyn since yesterday afternoon

Not complaining (we're getting a bunch of rain, but nothing out of the ordinary).

It keeps getting pushed back for us. First it was going to start at 3am, then 11am, then 1-2pm....

The longer it rains somewhere else, the less rain it will have to dump on you! The residents of somewhere else are not thrilled by this self-evident fact.

It is sprinkling very, very lightly where I am now, in Kingston, nothing heavy at all so far.

Okay, now it’s turned into a little more.

JR I love Kingston! I was just there last week, didn't know your family hailed from those parts. My parents are actually on a boat hiding out from the storms there now. I had the best mussels of my LIFE last week in a bistro near the stone church.

They are not from there, but winterized the summer place and live there now.

On a boat, you said?

Yeah they don't have a home right now so they live on a boat (not permanently). It's a good set-up, they're not suffering. They're waiting in Kingston bc their next destination was going to be Long Island Sound.

Ah, interesting.

I am actually sitting outside now under a little roof, so not quite getting rained on, but if the wind picks up anymore I will.

We were in Beacon seeing friends where it was calm and peaceful, got on the road and hit intense rain and flooding. Drove through a lake of a puddle due to gushing water near North Bergen. Visibility was super low so suddenly. Made it home finally into flooded Hoboken. Nuts drive.

Yikes Evan! My parents decided to move halfway through the afternoon because the weather was so calm (and they were running out of water, and my dad hates sitting still), and it was clear sailing until south of West Point, at which point they probably hit the same weather you did, and had huge problems docking safely and are finally tied down but a little shellshocked.

I'm about to go sit on a screen porch and listen to it rain.

Yes, that is usually pretty enjoyable.

I can't fall asleep without "Rain Falling On Attic Skylight With Quiet Thunder Sounds". I used to require multiple televisions and radios like Roky Erickson, so that's an improvement.

Sleeping during an audible downpour is a rare opportunity not to be missed. You gotta seize the day.

3-4 inches per hour is impressive

I wouldn’t mind all this water if our basement didn’t flood when it happened. To make it worse this time, the door has mysteriously locked for the first time since we’ve lived here and the landlord can’t find the key, so we can’t we can’t even go down there and move things off the floor or survey the damage.

as usual my roof is leaking a lot and it sucks