Say freaking what? Tornado touches down in Brooklyn & Queens NY

[malaise]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/tornado-touches-queens-brooklyn-article-1.1154892
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A terrifying tornado touched down briefly in Queens and Brooklyn Saturday morning, destroying property, disrupting plans and terrifying residents all over the city.

A black tunnel cloud accompanied by howling winds screamed into south Brooklyn and Queens at around 11 a.m., with reports of the potent storm hitting the ground on the Rockaway Peninsula and Carnarsie.

“I saw a big gray cloud coming and ran to my basement with my son,” said Diane Tye, 36, an office manager from Breezy Point who scooped up her son Dylan, 2, and ran to her house when she saw the tunnel cloud approach.

“It was very scary,” the breathless mom told the News just minutes after the storm passed, adding, “People around here are freaked out.”

The unusual storm ripped siding from homes and threw patio furniture high into the sky in Tye’s quiet beach neighborhood. Then the twister passed in just a few minutes, leaving broken windows and trees in its wake.

[MANative]

1. Pretty freaky - and there was some major wind damage where I live...

in western CT, less than a mile from my house. They say we are due for another round, including possible tornadoes, in about forty-five minutes.

[malaise]

2. Stay safe

I found out because there was a warning at the US Open semis

Stay safe

[MANative]

21. Thanks - It seems that the worst is now over...

Sure hope so. It was scary. Seriously.

[RagAss]

11. Western Connecticut State University Alum here.

GO WESTCONN !!!!

[MANative]

20. I drive by the Western campus (on Mill Plain Rd) every day!

Howdy, ex-neighbor!

[RagAss]

22. Howdy !

Glad you're okay after the storm.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The whole area up there is under a Tornado Watch

I.e., an area of about 3/4 of NY state, parts of Vermont and north Jersey, and eastern upstate PA. There's a strong cold front heading this way and its pushing the warm and humid area out in front of it along with a thick line of showers and storms. That coupled with the jet stream positioned up there at the moment and this is causing alot of instability.

[Make7]

4. Weird...

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A tornado in NYC is pretty strange as well...

[CatWoman]

5. was on Facebook and saw this and messaged my sister

(who lives in Brooklyn).

she said "good, I was wondering how to get out of choir rehearsal"

[malaise]

6. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahah

Tornado warnings should do it

[Graybeard]

7. Local TV news has good coverage.

NewYorkOne News is providing continuing coverage with eyewitness reports, videos and pics.

National Weather Service has confirmed tornado.

[louis-t]

8. I thought I was in the Twilight Zone

when I heard it this morning.

[Fawke Em]

9. First: Has Pat Robertson said that the tornado was a warning from God

because those heathen New Yorkers are very liberals, yet?

Second: What global warming?

[malaise]

15. No but Obama is ending the drought

[Junkdrawer]

10. Shhhh...A little "But you can't blame any single weather event, et, etc. ".....

and we can still hide runaway climate change.

At least, I think we can....

[AverageJoe90]

19. LOL, yeah.

But in all honesty, this particular event may not have actually been due to climate change. Things like this do happen once in a while.....

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Tunnel Cloud?

That does sound pretty scary.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Yeah - big ones look like this

[HappyMe]

14. I saw this on NY1.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
It's pretty dark here right now.

[MadHound]

16. Sounds like a baby one,

But I understand, this is unusual for the East Coast and everybody is freaked by it. Still, overall, not much damage done it sounds like.

If anybody wants to see a real tornado, well, the season is coming up here in the Midwest. Come, let us go chase storms

[cali]

17. It's not that unusual in that region.

[regnaD kciN]

18. That's it -- global climate change is definitely getting out of hand!