aftermath
When the storm hit at about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, New Yorkers scrambled for cover from torrential rain, hail the size of nickels, and powerful winds.
The sky turned a sickening shade of green as the destructive winds blew in, toppling a church steeple, blowing out windows and mowing down a forest's worth of trees.
Pictures of the wreckage
By quirk of schedule I was not commuting home at this time as I should have been, although I was not unaffected. I had a bitch of a trip home afterward -- 45 minute ride became a 3 hour adventure -- but taking a look at the utter destruction on my path home, it was undoubtedly safer this way. There was only one fatality, which is something of a miracle once you look at some of the destroyed houses and crushed cars.
The sky turned a sickening shade of green as the destructive winds blew in, toppling a church steeple, blowing out windows and mowing down a forest's worth of trees.
Pictures of the wreckage
By quirk of schedule I was not commuting home at this time as I should have been, although I was not unaffected. I had a bitch of a trip home afterward -- 45 minute ride became a 3 hour adventure -- but taking a look at the utter destruction on my path home, it was undoubtedly safer this way. There was only one fatality, which is something of a miracle once you look at some of the destroyed houses and crushed cars.