And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

it's like Close Encounters out there

I just came to revive. WTF?

Rain but it sounds like hail.

lol i decided i could brave throwing the trash out (literally 3 ft from my door) and got completely soaked in 2.5 seconds.

WUH BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

I walked into a store and it was just before sundown. I walked out ten minutes later and it was black as night and sheets of rain.

I'm so happy the power's still on.

(suburban MD, not NYC, but close enough)

Power out for five hours and counting. I am typing by candlelight.
I'm in W.Mass., so it's presumably the same storm.

How long until you throw everything in the fridge away? I'm thinking this is the big project that I have been avoiding that has now reached critical mass. (Cleaning out the fridge is always hard, so maybe this is a sign.)

It's ridiculous- this major storm blew through, knocked out the power, and now it's STILL 85 but with no possibility of relief through electricity, fans, a small a/c. I mean, I thought that things would cool down through a soft, gentle rain after the storm, allowing me to sleep.
No-ho-ho!
I am tired and miserable, but it is impossible to sleep when I am soaking the sheets with sweat whenever I lie down in my bed. It's cooler on the kitchen floor. That's where I'm camping right now.
I do have booze, laptop, candles and a very funny/scared kitty.
He doesn't like the candles! But...he wants to know the candles!

It's late, so...hopefully I can venture out tomorrow and find out when the electricity might be coming back. It's weird - there's a tiny strip of this small town (Easthampton) that is not affected, but the rest of this town and four surrounding towns are blacked out. I know this because I went to the 7-11 in the unaffected area and talked to the people in line who had driven there from other towns. I was surprised that this ten block area of easthampton seemed to be the only focus of electricity - and, y'know, I was driving around with my SO because staying in a brutally hot apartment is silly when you can contemplate your carbon footprint by risking death driving in a big storm because the car has A/C. And we definitely noticed that the 7-11 had become somewhat of a Bethlehem for the folks without electricity.

Whatever - I'm sounding like I'm blogging. It's not a big deal - the power will be on tomorrow, and nothing is leaking from the fridge right now.
Sorry for the long post - I really need to feel connected, so you, ilx, are my connection.

i attended an "event" in the village last nite and leaving around nine it was like The Wizard of Oz outside, wind bending the trees over and blowing dust in my eyes, lightening flashing and raindrops just starting to fall. got on the subway @14th street and took the pokey local to the UWS and when I remerged the storm was ending: rain-slick streets and fallen tree branches adorning Broadway. nice, since I didnae have umbrella.

How long until you throw everything in the fridge away?

Fridges can retain cold pretty well. If you avoid opening it, there's plenty of stuff that will stay good. I avoid the milk if the power stays off for more than a day though.

again! i love thunderstorms!

Some pretty freaky moments.

OK, no thunder yet today but...

These thunderstrms have been insane lately

OK, there it goes.

http://www.floridalightning.com/files/Supercell_Thunderstorm.jpg

weather people concede that "the clouds were rotating" though no tornadic activity transpired

I am so glad I don't live with you. That's scary. Plus your weather people need to be ousted.

what it actually looked like - http://gothamist.com/2008/06/17/early_addition_33.php

we saw some fucking hueg trees knocked over in riverside park last week. walking on riverside drive I asked my son "how much force would it take to not only pull that tree (gestures) up by its roots but rip apart the pavement too? isn't that what you did in science class this year?" CMON DAD IM DONE WITH SCHOOL OK!

i was walking down the street around 6:45 yesterday and the wind picked up so that dirt flew all over me... it really was swirly!

more like how it looked - http://gothamist.com/2008/06/18/weather_on_hold.php

Damn clouds, how can you catch a backyard tan in this weather?

could be worse

http://media.gatewaync.com/wsj/photos/2008/06/14/floods.jpg

tehresa, watch the next one from the upper deck of Shea Stadium like I did Saturday night.

i love how everyone is bitching and/or scared but TZA is all YAY!!

i regret that i have never seen a tornado. perhaps you misunderstood.

tehresa, watch the next one from the upper deck of Shea Stadium like I did Saturday night.

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:27 PM (Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:27 PM) Bookmark Link

pls to invite me next time!!

I'll wave to you guys as I'm riding down Northern Boulevard.

the view out my office window onto the hudson is kind of awesome when accompanied by lightning flashes!

HAIL

i haven't turned the lights on yet... maybe i'll just sit in the dark and sleep all day.

pics!

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v299/235/32/506836588/n506836588_831194_4462.jpg

within 3 minutes it went from grey but being able to see clear across to 0 visibility. also the window gets in the way of the picture.

(there is less visibility now than when i took that pic)

Hi dere

skies opened up within minutes of me getting home. would have been a bitch to hike from the Q in this.

and now... it's stopped?

Hello

I love all the storms this summer. To me this is what living on the East Coast (or not living on the West Coast because it is also a memory from the Midwest) is all about.

I have the AC on and blinds shut.

lasted five minutes

daer nyc pix plz

I ordered takeout, waited 15 minutes, went looking for my shoes to go get it, and then ... boom.

I love being inside with the AC on when it starts to thunder outside.

glass office towers are a somewhat disconcerting place from which to observe the furies of nature.

for a minute or two the rain was blowing up. then it started to around in big circles.

got to the radio station with two bags of records shortly before this minor thunderstorm eventtt. the lightning was nice, and some nice booming thunder, but it blew its load too early. i could have gone for a few more hours.

yeah by the time i got off work all was calm.

Was trippy

Yeah that was nuts! An exciting consolation prize for not getting to see the perseids

Heard this shit

Oh baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUh4K26pFs4

FUCKING INSANE.

Posted some stories from my walk to kid's school. Last time it flooded like this in Woodside, cars were literally being picked up and tossed down the street. I was tempted to go back home but I have a meeting today at my shop and had left my computer there so couldn't work from home anyway. It's just a few blocks but I got absolutely drenched. Definitely shouldn't have worn sneakers. It's really really bad out there.

I was already planning to go in to work late but if this keeps up I may bail entirely. I love a good storm but that is s but much

INSANE: This video was taken inside an @MTA bus on 18th Avenue and 60 Street in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/h3dpsOy2hG

— NYScanner (@nyscanner) September 29, 2023

Bonus points for Yiddish!

i think it's about time we give the fdr back to the east river

Pack a life jacket for the FDR. #NYC #Flood pic.twitter.com/okYztiklAd

— David Lennon (@DPLennon) September 29, 2023

state of emergency declared by Hochul

the gowanus is amongus

New York City emergency officials have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hits https://t.co/E30q97yK2O pic.twitter.com/xw1EgGvXmM

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 29, 2023

Just got an email from BAM, calling off the screening of Stop Making Sense we were gonna go to tonight. Flooding down the house!

Take me to the river, drop me in the water

Water’s flowing underground but rapidly accumulating above ground

There is water at the bottom of the bus

hope everyone is ok, tiktok is showing rivers in the streets

Had houseguests who were supposed to drive upstate today but turned around after less than a mile due to floating cars.

a little under six inches in central park since midnight

just under two inches between 10-11am alone

Water dissolving and water removing

never seen anything like that in my life. quite the school run.

Really glad I no longer live in a basement in Park Slope. Hope everyone's ok.

Yeah I was thinking about the basement apartment dwellers especially in the areas where the water rise was over the sidewalk level

It’s especially bad considering how many basement apts are illegal and how many are the homes for undocumented people.

I walked around in wb/gp today and the aftermath seems blessedly less terrible than I expected

Some day a real rain, etc.

The Real Rain Roxanne

dried out by now I hope

LFG

Plumber has been trying to diagnose a long-standing leak over here, punched a hole in our wall just in time for this storm and now there is some kind of spray behind the plastic they put up over the hole which is leaking slowly onto the floor, feels like maybe is something draining from the roof.