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yes, martha, a tornado in brooklyn.
it’s believed to have touched down at about 6:15 this morning somewhere around here, roughly 6 miles south of my home.
all that i had to endure was a house-shaking thunder clap that woke me up at 5 a.m., and then mother nature continuing to show us who wears the pants in this relationship with about 3 inches of rain in an hour (which turned my backyard into a swimming pool and my neighbor’s cellar into an indoor pool), gusty wind (which i feared would bring down my backyard tree), and a 1,000,000,000-watt multimedia show (incredible lightning and house-shaking, car-alarm-activating thunder).
of course, the MTA (the folks who operate the trains & busses) was well prepared to weather the storm… to see how the poor souls who had to get to work today felt about it all, or if you have hours to kill, check out the new york times’ city room blog reader comments.
