Weird Scarey Storm That Lasted Ten Minutes

[shadowkat]

Alright this is scary. I'm sitting on the fourth floor of a brownstone during a tornado warning in Brooklyn, NY. No indication one has definitely touched down. (Okay if it did touch down? I'd be dead. There are no interior rooms away from windows. No basement, I can go to, and no place to be safe. I suppose I could sit in the bathtub. There are no windows in the bathroom. )Before it began to rain - I looked at the sky and it was the color of Kale, a bracken green, deep as seaweed. And when it hit - it was if a wall of rain hit the building all at once. You couldn't see past the window. And lighting crashed against the windows. The air stinks of water, that dank dewy stinky smell of damp moss and algae. It's calming a bit now. But for a minute there I thought the storm would crash through the windows.

Does explain the sick headache I've had all day, and the feeling as if I were swimming up through
a fog. Even inside. All I've wanted to do all day was sleep. Curl tight into a ball and sleep. Ache all over. The air pressure heavy, pushing me down. What can I say? I'm a human weathervane.

Comments

[louise39.livejournal.com]

We are about 35 miles from Manhattan. The sky turned dark 30 minutes ago and the cats were stock still, afraid to move. The electricity, of course, staggered on and off with the lightening strikes and then the rain came down HARD. For 10 minutes!

The electricity to back! Yay!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Are you in NJ or NY? I know NJ was hit hard by it. It was definitely a tornado, albeit a small one but in a densely populated area that can do a lot of damage.

We got the outer edge, so were fine more or less, just a bit shaken.
Park Slope, Brooklyn and Forest Hills, Queens weren't so lucky - lots of damages. Roofs off buildings and everything.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

I live in Nassau County. My daughter works on Wall St and with no LIRR took 3 1/2 hours with subway/bus/car for her to get to her home to Long Beach.

But today is super-gorgeous!