"They smashed the whole backyard, a gazebo there. Trees branches were falling and trees came flying from other yards, Wylie said. Within seconds, the front door started lashing back and forth. I said "Let's go in!"' said Stephen Wylie, who was working in a backyard in Brooklyn. "All of a sudden, we saw this dark cloud, and it was moving. "I'm just glad it fell that way, as bad as I feel for the owners of that car, because if it fell this way, my house wouldn't be here."ĭavis' children and wife were in the home when the storm hit. "Someone up there wasn't listening," Davis said. Townsend Davis, 47, stood outside of his home in Brooklyn, where a 40-foot tree that was uprooted from the sidewalk and crushed two cars still had a sign in the soil around its roots that read "Respect the trees." A structural engineer was called in to assess the damage. Residents of the top floors of the buildings were evacuated, a fire official said. "I just heard a loud boom," said the 33-year-old. "After the roof went up, then all the rain came down and I had a flood."Ī neighbor at an adjacent building, Julian Amy, said he was sitting in his first-floor apartment when the storm barreled down his street. It was like a wave, it went up and fell back down," said Ruby Ellis, 58, who was doing dishes in her top-floor kitchen when the storm hit. "The wind was holding my ceiling up in the air. The can was launched way, way over there," he said, pointing at a building about 120 feet away where a metal garbage can lay flattened.įire officials were inspecting 10 buildings in Brooklyn whose roofs were peeled off or tattered by the wind. "Then all the garbage cans went up in the air and this spinning tree hits one of them like it was a bat on a ball. "A huge tree limb, like 25 feet long, flew right up the street, up the hill and stopped in the middle of the air 50 feet up in this intersection and started spinning," said Steve Carlisle, 54. Residents across the city were awed by the power of the storm. The National Weather Service said it would assess the damage to determine whether a tornado actually had touched down. "The good news is that most people were safe, just annoyed - traffic being bad or a tree coming down in their yard," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after touring storm damage in Queens. Shortly afterward, warnings were issued for Brooklyn and Queens. The storm hit just after 5 p.m., when the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Staten Island. He said hardest hit was Queens, with 27,000 outages. New Jersey Transit reported delays of 20 to 30 minutes during rush hour but normal service was restored around 7:45 p.m.Īt least 30,000 customers were without power Thursday night, according to Alfonso Quiroz, a spokesman for Consolidated Edison. The Long Island Rail Road said service was temporarily suspended between Penn Station and Jamaica because of fallen trees. The storm created havoc with the evening commute. Numerous minor injuries were reported elsewhere. The person was killed when a tree fell on a car in Queens, fire officials said. New York - A fast-moving storm packing winds of up to 100 mph ripped through the city Thursday, knocking down trees and power lines, snarling traffic, tearing off roofs and leaving one person dead. A brief but severe storm swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree Thursday.
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