I watched this storm come and go today in near disbelief. It seemed as if it was over almost as soon as it had begun, within only a few, brief minutes:
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New Yorkers Document the Storm
The New York Times | September 16, 2010
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
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Notably, I recall only one twister during my first forty years of living in Brooklyn, and that one took place in 1984, while I was sitting cross-legged on my bed playing cards with my children. The storm was so localized and transient in nature, albeit swift and VERY loud (like a passing train), that the few of us who witnessed it had a hard time convincing others that it had occurred. Had it not been for an uprooted oak and utility pole, and a few window screens scattered about, there'd have been no evidence of it all. The oak was lifted vertically out of the ground and placed gently in the middle of the street in front of my home as though it belonged there. On the blocks to the north, south, east and west of me? Nothing, business as usual. And then there were no repeats of this until about two or three years ago, when entire neighborhoods were subjected to much of the same. And now they (tornadoes, twisters, Category-3 type "microburst" storms, which the 'authorities' take days to classify, after the fact) are touching down more frequently.
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