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

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

sounds like you got a full measure of the storms we completely missed out on (which I'm glad about, we've had plenty of rain) over the last couple of days...
And yeah, a bathtub (particularly in a bathroom with no wndows) can be a very safe place... I know homes that were hit directly and the people in the tub were okay (bruised and scared, but basically perfectly well). Inside a closet can also be good.

Of course I've moved back into a trailer, and there is no good in a trailer (the wind gets underneath it and lifts if up... then bounces it a few times)

I'm glad you are okay!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It only lasted ten minutes. Weird for NY. Was a tornado, also weird for NY.
The city is still freaked out about it. LOL! One gal called it a hurricane.
Uh, no. Tornado.

Not quite sure where you can go in a trailer.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

the rule for both cars and trailers is that you get out... you are (literally) safer lying face down in the mud then inside of a container that can be lifted up in the air and bounced around on the ground. Luckily Fairfield (where I live) has only had near misses in the last 30 odd years, so I haven't had to do the lying face down in the mud thing.

Actually my landlord recommends going to some buildings a block away that have basements... but that is kind of an unappealing alternative in the middle of a storm too.

Frankly I find hurricanes scarier than tornados; with a hurricane you have a huge area where every building is under the brunt of powerful winds, falling trees, power lines, etc... but a tornado usually touches down doing a great deal of damage in a small area and then leaves the rest of the neighborhood untouched. Tornado damage is weird because it is totally hit or miss.