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

[yourlibrarian]

Wow, very freaky. Yes, even outside of a dense city we have no place we could get to in time for a tornado (nor do most apartment dwellers, I expect). Plus, given traffic, not many places to go if you're in the street either.

[ann1962]

I can feel drops in the barometric pressure too.

Seriously, a bike helmet, a blanket and a bathtub could save your life. We have the kids put them on when we have to go to the basement for the storms.

[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!

[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!