And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

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.

nice

Seconded

Warning: strobe lighting in use.

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.