New York hit by MASSIVE wind storm

[KiaKat]

Photos from NYPost here.

To copy what I said about the damage on another forum:

One major street near the store has a basketball court, fenced in with standard wire fences. There's a tree in front, on the corner, that snapped in half and took out a good quarter of the fence, maybe more. One of the local parks is totally wrecked. A housing project several blocks up doesn't have a tree left standing, and the playground was completely destroyed. The major route I take to work (is a boulevard-style setup) has several bits blocked off due to downed limbs.

This place is a mess...but my neighbourhood is undamaged, beyond a few leaves knocked down. Remarkable.

[TelephoneAngel]

Wow! How lucky there were so few fatalities in something like that!

[draggar]

I read about this earlier. Has a tornado been confirmed yet? Some of the damage looks consistent with a tornado.

[KiaKat]

I don't think there's a confirmed tornado yet, though there were a couple of funnel clouds, and a small waterspout near the Navy Yards in Greenpoint.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Wow. We got a good storm and some torrential rain yesterday (saw a few good lightning bolts ) but the wind wasn't too bad.

The bad part was I had to drive home in it. Roads were flooding that don't normally flood because it was coming down so hard.

[Grape The Cat]

The National Weather service confirmed 2 tornadoes, one in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The are pics of the NYC storm damage in this link.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weath...tos_2010-09-16

[bhskittykatt]

Wow, we regularly get bad wind storms here, but that's something else! (Worst damage I'd seen from one of our storms was 8 trees falling on 1 persons property...5 on the house and 3 on the car).