I have never been so terrified of weather conditions as I was this afternoon. At about 5:00, it began thundering intensely and incessantly, no rain, but loud and windy, and then, at about 5:30 it hit. It was like a wave crashing into my home. The wind was so violent that rain was coming up into my windows, and took out several plants on the balcony. And it was purple dark… branches torn, trees uprooted and cars crushed. It was phenomenally intense and by 5:50 it was over, leaving only destruction behind. While I have lived through some wild hurricanes, this was the closest thing I have ever seen to a tornado in Brooklyn.
Here’s someone else’s view of the approach.