HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK.
Aug. 8th, 2007 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
We've been having a thunderstorm for the past few hours, I guess. It woke me up a bit (but not enough for me to actually wake up and close my damn windows) until 6:26 when all I heard was BANG... BANG.
I woke right up, looked out the window, observed the freaky somewhat greenish sky, and went to ask my mom if she'd heard that. Then I went back, closed the windows, found my glasses, and put a shirt on.
Couldn't sleep, everybody was talking too loudly. Seems there were some trees down, maybe a power line....
Or, maybe all the trees on the block and several power lines down right in front of our house.
And maybe, up until about ten, fifteen minutes ago, Staten Island was under a tornado warning. Brooklyn still is under a tornado warning, and may have actually had a tornado, and we think that we were hit by a tornado.
This is what the warning for Brooklyn says:
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR KINGS COUNTY...
AT 634 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FLATBUSH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE
We are *so* lucky. And we even have power.
Edit: And the fact that the wind and rain dropped immediately after all this happened is just serving to creep me out. Clearly, this is the eye of the storm, and it is watching us.
I woke right up, looked out the window, observed the freaky somewhat greenish sky, and went to ask my mom if she'd heard that. Then I went back, closed the windows, found my glasses, and put a shirt on.
Couldn't sleep, everybody was talking too loudly. Seems there were some trees down, maybe a power line....
Or, maybe all the trees on the block and several power lines down right in front of our house.
And maybe, up until about ten, fifteen minutes ago, Staten Island was under a tornado warning. Brooklyn still is under a tornado warning, and may have actually had a tornado, and we think that we were hit by a tornado.
This is what the warning for Brooklyn says:
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR KINGS COUNTY...
AT 634 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FLATBUSH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE
We are *so* lucky. And we even have power.
Edit: And the fact that the wind and rain dropped immediately after all this happened is just serving to creep me out. Clearly, this is the eye of the storm, and it is watching us.
