The creepiest thing is that this is over my head right now and nothing is happening. No wind/rain/sound. twitter.com/jtes/status/24…
— jessica testa (@jtes) September 8, 2012
On Saturday evening around 5:30 p.m., a nasty storm approached Manhattan, along with a warning from the National Weather Service that a tornado could be on its way and to “Stay away from windows.”
The clouds darkened quickly, shrouding the city; rain began to fall. And then, almost as quickly, it stopped. Tornados did in fact touch down in Brooklyn and Queens and cause some damage, but there weren’t apparently reports of injuries and otherwise the city was spared hellfire and destruction.
Nonetheless, the event did produce some pretty fantastic photos. Check them out below. Thanks to everyone who sent them in.
By Karen Keating, looking East from 75th Street.
Taken by Ellen Dubin from 96th Street and Central Park West.
Photo by Jason Haber.
Photos below by Dana Vettel from Riverside Park South and her apartment
Re: “a warning from the National Weather Service that a tornado could be on its way and to ‘Stay away from windows’….The clouds darkened quickly, shrouding the city; rain began to fall. And then, almost as quickly, it stopped. ”
We want our tornado!!! A government agency promised it! Obviously yet another screw-up by an over-funded federal agency and probably something else to blame on Obama. Somebody call Paul Ryan!!!
Anyway, guess we’re STILL “in Kansas.” B/t/w: has anyone seen Toto ???
— WWW (hint: NOT a URL)
Thank you all for sharing your photos. But there was something about the ominousness of that approaching storm that seems to defy representation through the static medium of the camera.
Wow!! Those are incredible photos. You don’t often think about the beauty of nature during a storm.