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!!

TCB in a flash.

I thought for sure that the power plant in LIC had exploded

For a while I kept seeing the lightning before hearing any thunder and was wondering if there was some kind of mirror truck outside on the street.

That was fucking nuts. I too had the exploding power plant theory.

I’ve also never heard the “timpani roll” part of the crash be so long and so deep

woke me up. longest sustained thunder I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJVQN9pK1k
#onethread

kept setting off car alarms on my street

I actually would like a meteorological explainer for why this morning’s was so crazy, has anyone seen one?

The parakeets were freaked ftr

https://gothamist.com/news/awoken-by-thunder-blame-thermal-inversion

Thanks! I had checked gothamist earlier this morning before that was up

started hummin’ songs from 1962

Ain’t it funny

Under severe watch but right now still the calm before, I guess.

HI DERE

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much sustained lightning. Just hours of lightning.

No storm other than a drizzle, just an f-ton of fireworks going off.

nice

Seconded

Warning: strobe lighting in use.

Was trippy

Yeah that was nuts! An exciting consolation prize for not getting to see the perseids

Heard this shit

Oh baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUh4K26pFs4

FUCKING INSANE.

Posted some stories from my walk to kid's school. Last time it flooded like this in Woodside, cars were literally being picked up and tossed down the street. I was tempted to go back home but I have a meeting today at my shop and had left my computer there so couldn't work from home anyway. It's just a few blocks but I got absolutely drenched. Definitely shouldn't have worn sneakers. It's really really bad out there.

I was already planning to go in to work late but if this keeps up I may bail entirely. I love a good storm but that is s but much

INSANE: This video was taken inside an @MTA bus on 18th Avenue and 60 Street in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/h3dpsOy2hG

— NYScanner (@nyscanner) September 29, 2023

Bonus points for Yiddish!

i think it's about time we give the fdr back to the east river

Pack a life jacket for the FDR. #NYC #Flood pic.twitter.com/okYztiklAd

— David Lennon (@DPLennon) September 29, 2023

state of emergency declared by Hochul

the gowanus is amongus

New York City emergency officials have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hits https://t.co/E30q97yK2O pic.twitter.com/xw1EgGvXmM

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 29, 2023

Just got an email from BAM, calling off the screening of Stop Making Sense we were gonna go to tonight. Flooding down the house!

Take me to the river, drop me in the water

Water’s flowing underground but rapidly accumulating above ground

There is water at the bottom of the bus

hope everyone is ok, tiktok is showing rivers in the streets

Had houseguests who were supposed to drive upstate today but turned around after less than a mile due to floating cars.

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.