And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

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.

all the rain this summer has been pretty lame

what the fuck was that shit

Somebody tonight was telling me that there had been a tornado in Central Park. And that a hundred trees were felled. And that they were in a restaurant on a boat called the Frying Pan on the river looking at the lightning on the water and that the serving trays were flying around like playing cards, as thrown by Ricky Jay.

Well, I added the part about Ricky Jay but the rest they told me.

hundreds of trees

http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanfrog/sets/72157621960253551/

Oh yeah.

Just drove through hailstorm.

Should I have brought an umbrella today? Rats.

hoping for not-storms on friday, it'll be bad enough going all over trying to borrow drums etc :/

Are you in NYC this weekend?

yup, was posting on another thread but i'm playing electronics & drums (as Chants) at glasslands on friday

Lightning a few minutes ago lit up the whole room.

I've NEVER seen intersection flooding like this.

Word. My hi-heel sneakers got soaked.

Five car alarm thundercrack, oh my.

Spooky clouds

Some Lathe of Heaven stuff going on out there.

I look like I just won a wet tshirt contest

glad to have a bar in my office building

Thread title has always been slightly wrong, really should be "And When the Sky Was Opened."

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.