And The Sky Was Opened (NYC Thunderstorms)

until i glanced out the window and noticed it was rather dark for 7:30

and just as i finished asking a coworker "so is that sunset dark, or clouds dark" BOOM the lightning

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!!

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.

Here comes

and it's gone

Good timing. Just as it started my wife called and told me the school nurse called to tell her my daughter wasn't feeling well. She's in the city today while I'm working from my printshop which is a few blocks from the school so I said I'd go get her. Halfway there I had to open the umbrella. While waiting for her the sky opened. It said it was going to last for another half hour so we ran. The streets were already flooding. I had to pick her up and carry her across the street because there were literal rivers streaming down the streets. Got home and changed into dry clothes. It stopped raining 20 minutes later.

The fuck

What this means is that I’m going to be soaking wet when I get to the bar

A new Tornado Watch is now in effect for Northern NJ and the NYC suburbs until 10:00pm. This means that conditions are favorable for storms that could produce tornadoes. Stay weather aware through the evening hours. We’ll have updates throughout the day! pic.twitter.com/UGylCxJuIp

— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) August 9, 2024

("watch" is the lowest probability alert the NWS issues, so you can probably ignore this.)

I had a tree come down on my deck this morning. RIP deck and maybe deck furniture.

yikes good luck!

Pics!

Strongest winds I can remember this afternoon

https://i.imgur.com/olmbrGQ.jpg

The railing and tree are threatening to drop into the driveway below. :(

holy shit, at least it missed your house!

Yeah, we were very lucky given the layout.

I've called two tree guys and haven't heard back. So many trees and branches down in our area, so I'm not surprised.

Chainsaw rentals r us

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/ACDC-Thunderstruck.png

OTM

See the flash and the hear various thuds

Then

I’ve experienced rain coming through my bedroom ceiling five times in the last seven years. Heading home now to see if it’s happened again.

does everyone have a headache today

yes

Goddamnit yes is THAT why??

I'm additionally fighting off a cold but I am susceptible to any vague air-pressure based theories tbh, they have the ring of truth.

My sinuses always tell me when the weather’s a-changin

Rain now

Say please

yah just spent a couple minutes looking out our back window and appreciating the sound. bring it on i say.

its the best song in the world

Not too much precipitation at the moment but just experienced some kind of eerie rolling thunder

Yeah its

Er, it's been a drizzly morning, but feels like it's about to really open up. But given the heat wave, I think it's going to be one of those showers that doesn't really bring a sense that the world has been washed and pleasantly reset.

Good point

Got woken up by a good loud one at 5am but near Brighton beach UK not NY

fucking bullshit waking up to thunderstorm skies only to see it'll hit 93 (realfeel 98) in the afternoon

Ant believe there were no posts here in Thursday. That was insane.

this rain is not fucking around

Counterpoint from a DC visitor in town for a little vacation - this rain is kinda just fucking around, a bit.