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Confirmed: F2 Tornado Touches Down...In Brooklyn!

wcbstv.com — What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.

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  • JonAce, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16It was one hell of a storm...
    • versionist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+54I woke up in Brooklyn to a TORNADO WARNING! WTF? Like I know what the hell to do in that situation! Duck and cover? Stand under a tree? Stop drop and roll?
      • Coven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye...
      • coyote1284, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did the Emergency Broadcast System work this time?
      • crimsonnblue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4lols. Get to the lowest level of the building you're in and hug an internal wall!
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1you go in your closests *****.Stay away from windows!!!. Damn the Northeast doesn't need Tornadoes lol. You guys will screw yourselves.. I remember this guy from New York City. When he came to OU in (norman oklahoma). He freaked out because two of them were in the air. both over the campus. One south and one north.. Everyone was walking like normal. N o one freaked out but him XD..........

        We're so use to it in Oklahoma that its something that you take the safety precautions, and let it run its cycle. I remember when I drove pass a super cell cloud forming into a tornado. We all hit the gas like crazy. The first time I passed a police officer's vehicle going 160 mph and not get pulled over(did his sirens until he saw the tornado and then took a sharp turn around to close the interstate)...
    • LogicBomB, on 10/10/2007, -14/+4Verionist - I don't think you'll make it in this world.

      You go downstairs, stay away from the windows and bring candels/portable radio.
      • dreagen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Yeah us New Yorkers are Taught what to do when a Tornado comes... They Hit New York all the time.
        • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Umm.... You should've been taught. New York CAN get very powerful tornadoes. It could conceivably see a F5. Hell... the city saw a tornado in 1995 per that article.

          Hurricanes don't hit New York all the time, but sooner or later it will get a category 4. Will you be reacting the same way when that happens? I really hope you don't get a 6-7 earthquake, because then you'd really be *****.

          New York gets just about every natural disaster you could think of, it just doesn't get them all too frequently.
        • KidVicious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why is Every Other word Capitalized?
      • TheDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6WTF are candels?
    • birkoph, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Tornado In Brooklyn... Home land security involved.... You retards it was a UFO or some Giant robot .gov experiment..... Or a new 18-08-08 promotion stunt.
    • Jrr6415sun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6i'm living on the bayridge shore for the summer, and that was ridiculous. Trees smashing cars and roofs blowing off houses. Subways being flooded. It took me 3 hours to get to work yesterday, it was hell.
    • BESTenemy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7To paraphrase George Carlin:

      "Weather event? Sounds important! Gotta get tickets to that!"
    • DSGalvin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I live in Oklahoma and we eat F2's for breakfast....
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...... Moore, Oklahoma eats F2's for snacks.. Well that town gets destroyed I've never understood it. ITs the most hit spot in the Metro...

        I'm a student at OU, and live in OKC.....

        Yea we eat F2's for breakfast, and F4's are the course meals.....
    • eyefork, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I live in Texas and tornadoes still scare the hell outta me
    • caponumen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2F2 is for pussies.
      I slept trough an F3 and awoke to find the trailer flipped over.....
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2BAh that's nothing. Try being in Oklahoma city, and sleeping through the F5 on May 3rd, 1999.. wake up and goto OCCC to get registered for a course. Only to see the entire south side devastated.. It was like an atomic bomb man..
  • nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -10/+83I blame manbearpig.
    • mikesbaker, on 10/10/2007, -14/+4I blame Jebus
    • 1iProd, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2I think there were some owlbears in on this also. Cheeky *****.
    • MeMongo, on 10/10/2007, -8/+7Manbearpig? This is thuper thuper therial
    • coyote1284, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1I blame Zoidburg!
      and President Bush.
      • gigawatts2k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Ah, he must have used the same magic weather machine that he used to send Katrina toward the 9th Ward.
        • JCSaint, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1hehe. Just to be fair, no blames Bush for Katrina. At least no one with any sense. They blame his him and his aides for a response that was inadequate and ineffective.
    • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I blame Xenu
    • viewtiful4ever, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2are you super cereal?
  • twrife, on 10/10/2007, -25/+15Global warming.
    /sarcasm
    • wrongonce, on 10/10/2007, -8/+7Now called "climate change"
      /rolling-eyes-with-pursed-lips-derision
      • t0ken, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5Give it about 2-5 years and the opponents will start calling it something else in order to diffuse it further
        • coyote1284, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I vote Alkali Rain for the next chic ecological disaster.
        • oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1When can we call it just a tornado? They seem to happen.
      • nblsavage, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's being called "climate change" because morons like you keep saying "global warming can't be happening - it's cold here"
        • JCSaint, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's because they think "global warming" must mean that every where on earth must experience warmer weather every day. "Global warming" refers to global average temperatures that keep increasing. "Climate change" is probably a better term for what I like to call, "People ***** up the environment."
    • LittleDas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Global warming indeed.
      /serious
  • handheldchimp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I live in NJ near Princeton, and when this storm blew through us I could have sworn we were going to get hit by a tornado...it was a freaking light show that seemed like it would never end!
    • orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Same up here in Bergen County. If only the tornado could have hit Morningside Heights where my ex-girlfriend lives...maybe next time.
    • web.phreak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm also in Bergen County and yeah it was intense... woke me up at around 5am to constant rolling thunder.
      Weatherman says that there are actually around 14 tornados per year in the NY,NJ,CT area, so not really that much of a shock. However this one was sure felt more given the dense population of the affected area. Wild stuff...
      • dip42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you guys are in Bergen County, like me.. Then you must of known about the water advisory the storm left us with. Something like lighting struck a water treatment center. Thats what i heard at least. For two days, all of Bergen County had to boil its water.
    • Genady, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oddly enough... lightning and tornados... not related. (Well other than they are both produced by Thunderstorms, but still....)
    • mommabear2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I live rite by princetion too and it was intense--reppin the 908 ya digg
    • lehmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sorry guys.. after living in tornado alley for all of my life... I'm laughing.. you guys crack me up.. (granted, I'm sure there's stuff I've never lived through that happens to you guys, but still.. )
  • ImYourRealDad, on 10/10/2007, -26/+18Yankees suck.
    • MeMongo, on 10/10/2007, -11/+6As does baseball
    • wrongonce, on 10/10/2007, -8/+4Baseball could suck, but Yankees definitely suck.
      Explains the low pressure system and likelihood for tornadoes.

      Although, even Yankee fans don't deserve natural disasters.
    • rabidg00se, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Brooklyn != the Bronx
    • MusicMagi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1yeah, ***** baseball. puts me to sleep
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1The Redsox are the new Yankees anyway.
    • maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0WTF does the Yankees have to do with a tornado discussion?
  • geekchic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90I was expecting an F2 Tornado to be a fighter jet.
  • monkeycatDx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Why do they need to add "Confirmed"?
    Its not like the wind blew down 50 trees and flipped 20 cars...
    • ltkerr0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Because Brooklyn isn't exactly tornado alley. Tornadoes are kinda rare around here
    • MrDo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It could just have been another Godzilla attack.
      • Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yeah, there was less damage from the tornado then the destruction of Matthew Broderick's performance.
    • MeMongo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Sometimes it's just strong winds and it only seems like a tornado went through. We get that all the time in FL. A few years ago a strong storm pushed through and a down draft hit a restaurant basically destroying it. Trees were knocked over, as were cars. It all followed a nice straight path for a few hundred meters. Everyone said "Tornado", but no one actually saw a funnel cloud and not a single weather RADAR picked up enough rotation to even suggest that an F1 twister hit that area. It was just a really strong gust of wind.

      Who cares if it was a tornado or not? I'm sure that insurance companies care for one reason or another (so they can refuse to pay you or cancel your policy), but I have a feeling that it is mostly for scientific data and weather prediction. We had these variables and a tornado couldn't form but very destructive winds hit.
      • bigjimslade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Correct, supercells can result in incredible downdraft winds that can destroy things. There's also the "gustnado" which can mimic the damage of a tornado. No matter, this tornado was small.

        There's no clause that insurance companies have that says, "if it's a tornado, we don't pay." Guess again. They'll pay. Cancel your policy? Why? The incredible ongoing risk of multiple Brooklyn tornadoes? Here's an answer to all of those in the news story about what you should do: call your insurance company...first. This whole "please, federal government, SAVE US" crap has got to stop. Who's responsibility was it to have insurance? Not the federal government's.
        • AlanLivingston, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hey, BigJim, don't be too sure about that.

          Deductibles in this area go up to 2% of home value if there's a hurricane in the area at the time of your loss. I'm don't think there's a tornado deductible but I haven't read my policy renewals in a couple of years...

          And it's not like this was a real tornado. Real tornadoes reduce whole towns to rubble like Greensburg, earlier this year. They don't just knock some trees over and break a couple of windows.

          It's not about the "incredible ongoing risk of multiple Brooklyn tornadoes", it's about the catastrophic economic loss, _to the insurance company_ of a single tornado in an urban community.

          Stop blathering on about issues you know nothing about. Many insurance companies are refusing renewals in the area just because it's too risky to underwrite. Others are refusing to take on new policies. Obtaining homeowners insurance in Metro NYC isn't a picnic.
        • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's under Wind Damage. BEcause that's really what a tornado is..

          *lives in oklahoma*
    • orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21They could have used "BREAKING", since it broke a lot of *****.
    • Anthracene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It was initially Doppler indicated. I had also heard that it may have been rain wrapped in which case you probably would not be able to see it... I live in NC and we have a mini-tornado alley in the Piedmont region from cells descending out of the Appalachians. Most of those end up very small and rain wrapped. I have "seen" them but never a true funnel. The only one which ever "affected" me was an f2 and an f3 traveling together and neither one could be seen for all the rain. We ran to our basement when we heard the f2 going over our house. Ours typically do not touch down, they just skirt the tree tops and for that I guess we are pretty lucky. Living in a brick home rather than a trailer helps too.
    • imdandman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A Tornado isn't a "Tornado" until it touches down on the ground. Before that it's just a funnel cloud. The touchdown is what you have to confirm.
  • drizzlelicious, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Apparently this was a rumor before it became confirmed

    Thank you for confirming, you made the world a better place.

    /sarcasm
  • karmatized, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10dude that was in my area, i can take a walk and see tree's lopped over cars and roofs ripped right off. 1889 was the last one that brooklyn had and i dont even know if it was as strong.
    • benonymous, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1That was the global warming of the 19th century.
  • peppaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33On Staten Island, the sound of this storm was ridiculous. At first, for about 3 hours, it was a very entertaining SILENT lightning show in the sky. Not one bit of thunder or rain along with the multiple forms of lightning which were striking about every 1-3 seconds. Then I laid down about 5 am and I swear if I hadn't saw the lightning earlier, I would have though we were under attack. This was the kind of thunder you can feel in your chest and will wake you out of a deep sleep. Car and house alarms instantly blared from the first crack of thunder, and repeatedly tripped for about 2 hours. Water was shooting upwards from the manhole covers, and I awoke to find two dead robins and a bluejay in my pool with lightning burns to their NECKS.. Then today it was 105 degrees at the Korn show at PNC.
    mmmmm emissions...
    • HedwigDies, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1A Korn Show! Lawd Have Mercy on you poor thing, to be subjected to that sort of brutality.
    • benonymous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Car and house alarms instantly blared from the first crack of thunder, and repeatedly tripped for about 2 hours."

      I hope you didn't assume that it was just the tornado. Somebody could have been jacking your ride, or your house!
    • Azslande, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Sir... That was epic...
  • Retype, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34wow... they landed a F2 Tornado in Brooklyn ???

    ... will be stolen within the hour guarenteed!
  • Chunkynotsmooth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1That was some crazy ass *****!
  • UGM2099, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Even up here in northern Brooklyn it was a wild storm.
  • QueenzTREEZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Roads are never flooded where I live, and this storm had everywhere looking like a lake yesterday morning, I just happened to be awake and walked around at 7 am. Cars were under water and just stupid people were driving their cars right through these ponds and simply seizing the engine, a good 4 on my block destroyed their cars, retards. I even saw a car on fire and waited for the gas tank to blow but it slowly melted, I think lightning struck the car... NYC is ***** bananas bitches!
  • scorpshockey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6For the record, this was an EF2 tornado. The NWS has been using the Enhanced Fujita Scale since February.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_Scale
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3War of the Worlds
  • easyone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6A news site with a digg link in it? Didn't know you had to push people to read the legit news O_O
    • BOBcat5785, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I thought I was the only one that noticed that
    • TheDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I've been noticing more and more standard news outlets providing digg links on their articles lately. To them, publicity is publicity, I suppose.
  • clyde2801, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Wow...are there trailer parks in Brooklyn? And before you ask how I can laugh at a tornado, keep in mind that I'm in Oklahoma.
    • orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7When the entire world laughs at the place you live in, it's easy to laugh back I suppose.
    • mediatwo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2New York has housing complex's just like any other populated city. Wheres room for trailer parks? Central Park, maybe.. lol
      • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1in the outer boroughs.... Staten Island and parts of Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn don't resemble a city at all
    • duality, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree with you. An F2 tornado....*yawn*. Wake me up when these people experience an F4 tornado, like the ones we had in Oklahoma during the Spring of 1990 and Fall of 1998.
  • rschroeder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5There are no trailer parks in Brooklyn, what gives? I did see and old hag flying by my window on a bicycle with a dog in a basket attached to the handle bars! Seriously, I just moved to Queens from Brooklyn, just in time I guess. The LIRR station was under 5 feet of water, it took my 3 hours to go 13 miles to work in Manhattan. Back to Brooklyn tonight for the Beastie Boys @ MCCarren Park Pool. Let the beat DROP!
  • adamrgolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pics?
  • Enlightenment, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4yeah that sucks, so that was just a F2, here is what an incredible 1.7 mile wide F5 tornado will do!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Greensburg%2C_Kansas_2007May09_-_after_tornado.jpg
    • LogicBomB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You just posted the picture found in a previous poster's link to the EF scale...
  • hasslinthehoff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Right now I think Dennis Quaid is trying to get Bloomberg to believe that it's only going to get worse. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens the day after tomorrow.
    • goeatsmsht, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I see what you did there.....
    • LoudMusic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, see that was Los Angeles. This is completely different.
  • Frosty122, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6welcome to Texas.......
  • zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Naw, global warming doesn't exist. It's impossible. [/sarcasm]

    You know what I found out by watching news and interviews about this? New Yorkers are incredibly whiny. I mean, we get screwed up by hurricanes down where I live. A category two could have most of my house underwater, and yet we don't complain as much about it. Oh, and by the way, insurance companies are cancelling flood coverage left and right 'round here (we're one of the lucky ones), due to a one-time event like Katrina. Don't be surprised if tornado insurance becomes a little more hard to come by.
    • SupaFupa, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2You should actually visit the place sometime. They are positive that nothing worth mentioning exists outside of new york. Someone seriously asked me if we had chinese food here (indiana). Many of them didnt even know where indiana was. But I found the same phenomenon on the west coast too.
    • bigjimslade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Hurricanes a "one time event' in Florida? Florida WILL get hit by another hurricane in the next 10 years. Brooklyn will probably NEVER get hit by another Tornado for hundreds of years.
    • LadyKofNYC, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Meanwhile, you people in Florida close down the entire state and run for cover whenever a few snowflakes fall out of the sky.
      • TheDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not quite true. Most Floridians moved there from states that have snow.
    • zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0#1: I'm not in Florida.
      #2: I was referring to something the magnitude of Katrina as a one time thing.
      #3: Well, yeah. It'd be a shocker, kind of like snow in Mexico.
      • joebaloney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I was in Oaxaca in the spring and it started hailing and continued for 20 minutes. Afterwards the ground was covered with about an inch of hail.
  • jason469, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10We in the North Eastern say NO! to tornados. Give us the blizzards and give the south the tornados.
  • sillywampa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10A Tree Falls in Brooklyn?
    • trotter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Perhaps...A Tornado Plows Through Brooklyn
    • one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What!? Brooklyn has trees?
  • jmchez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2According to Mr. G, a local weather forecaster, Brooklyn is the last borough to get hit by a tornado. All of the other, even Manhattan, have had at least one. Staten Island has had 5. Suffolk County in Long Island has been hit by 11.
  • bheilig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The last tornado in Brooklyn was in 1889. The last tornado in NYC was in 1998.
  • coyote1284, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The British are invading!
  • JohnnyXmas, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1If thats not a sign that "The End" is near, then I don't know what is. It's weird enough that tornadoes only exist in North America.
    • Anthracene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Are you serious? There are tornados on all continents minus antarctica. Most other continents do not have a Great Plain. China has them in the Gobi desert and they occur in africa in the south and some in the north. In the southern hemisphere they rotate clockwise instead. Even Siberia has had one at least once.
      North America just has them on tap.
    • jspegele, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As Anthracene pointed out, they've been reported on all continents except Antarctica - http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106250/tornado#218357.toc
    • jordanday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Down in Australia they call them cyclones.

      But they're really tornadoes.
    • MusicMagi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3yer stoopid.
    • cjmal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"the end is near"? Are you ***** kidding me? Tornadoes happen ANYWHERE other than Antarctica.
  • JohnnyXmas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6FTA: ""I just wanted to lay down and die," Brooklyn resident May Johnson told CBS 2."

    LOL what?!
    • TheDragon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3There's that survival instinct kicking in....
    • one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is this urge to lay down and die really about the tornado, or is May Johnson maybe just a little bit... hungry? Has she tried a Mars bar?
  • wilhoitm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Tornado's in the Hood!
    • one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Tornado's layin' the smack down.
  • momsshizzle, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Damn. Just one person died? I hope they weren't white. There should have been more deaths to the other race. Oh yea.....Linsux!
    • jordanday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4My goodness...
      this was,
      THE PERFECT TROLL!

      Somehow momsshizzle managed to troll on race AND operating system!

      Gentlemen, the end is near.
    • MusicMagi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1stupid racist waste of life.
    • pantysniffer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0infectious human waste
  • Anthracene, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I kept looking on web cams yesterday but I could not find anything except rainy dark skies. A few were not accessible and I think they may have been near the center of the lightning.
  • kelchm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4"I just wanted to lay down and die," Brooklyn resident May Johnson told CBS 2.

    Its so cool to be emo.
  • MrVictor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I hope it sent all of the Staten Island guidos to Ozz.
  • 5xSTUN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2When in Brooklyn, if a tornado warning occurs, put on a white cotton tank top, find someone who looks like they're askin' fer a beatin', and pop 'em one. Won't stop the tornado but ya feel betta.
  • SmilingJess, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yup -- time to make room for some mobile homes. Folks from Kentucky and Florida will now feel right at home while visiting New York =)
  • MusicMagi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Brooklyyyyyyyyyyyn what what?!?! (i was sleeping)
  • mindvise, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7First confirmed Tornado in Brooklyn since we started recording such events.....but there's no such thing as global warming????
  • 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3A tornado is bad - But let's hope that you never see a hurricane in NYC.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carol
    • maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Isn't NYC overdue historically to get smacked with a full-on hurricane?
      • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well... the northeast is. My area (southeastern CT) was hammered by this one

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938

        It was a category 3 on landfall, but with forward speed of close to 70 MPH it was a ***** monster. Most wind instruments broke, but there were recorded gusts of 186 mph. If the same storm hit today, it would rival Katrina in damage. If it hit New York, it would probably cause a lot more damage.
      • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://geocities.com/hurricanene/hurr1938.htm

        I know it's a ***** geocities site, but I find it to be a pretty good account of it. The local (to Norwich, CT) kook/historian, Bill Stanley, has lots of pictures and stories published in books about this storm, but he hasn't moved any of it to the Internet. This is the best I've found online.
        • AndyDick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just a fellow Norwich resident saying hello!
  • nblsavage, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Here we go kiddies - I see the deniers are in full force today.
  • MrDaniil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I live on the beach and how the hell did I manage to miss all that!? Although the after shocks were felt well - subways weren't running and F was so full.... Feel sort for bad now; people got their homes torn apart and cars smashed in the middle of the night and here I am complaining about the subway. True New Yorker :)
    • Chizz44, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If you live on the beach and you're talking about the F train, chances are you are out near Coney Island or thereabouts - I live not far from there and I am amazed that you didn't hear all the ruckus in the sky this storm caused early in the morning! I am a deep sleeper and that ***** woke ME up, had the dog barking like crazy, car alarms going off and buckets of water pouring from the sky. You have a right to complain though, the F was out of control that morning, fo' sheezy!
  • ramong, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Global Warming's a biotch!!
  • Sangatious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1F2, hmm? ...*consults Twisters for futher explaination*
  • fashiontrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I slept through this, then woke up and rode my bike into Manhattan as usual while the city was paralyzed by a cripped transit system.

    My grin ate some extra ***** while I breezed past all the stuck commuters.
  • RocketGib, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Actually, this storm should be rated as EF-2 since the original Fujita scale was recently upgraded.
    • HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's considered good form to click the link and read the article before commenting.
  • scoot2006, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3F2.. That's it? Weaksauce.
    • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1In ***** it might not be a big deal, but F2 is bad enough in the largest, most densely populated city (and I'm not counting the 2 sq mile cities out there like Central Falls,RI) in America.
  • asaturn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1CONFIRMED: 9/11 was an inside job!
  • ManOfVirtues, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ok being from Western Iowa (average 40 - 80 tornadoes a year) and a trained weather spotter I have a bit of advice for those of you who don't know what to do in the event of Tornado.

    1.) Put on your official "I'm in a twister" uniform. Men, Cut off jean shorts, white dirty tank (wife beater for the young members of the audience), and no shoes you don't want to get them wet. Women, T shirt from the last Nascar event, Moo moo, half of your hair curlers, and house shoes. Never mind the reality that if you do get hit your going to want to be wearing full durable pants, hard sole boots or tennis shoes, and a sweatshirt( you may not be cold now but you will be).
    2.) Grab your camcorder and run outside because you know you want your footage for the next family gathering "Larry come in here, you got to see this!! Steve and I got a block away from the tornado." Do this even when logic tells you to go to the lowest level of your house/building to a room with no windows preferably on an interior wall carrying your battery powered radio, flashlight, a couple candy bars, and a bottle water because you may be down their a while.
    3.) So for some reason you ended up in the basement, against your lesser judgment, be sure to send your fastest person upstairs every five minutes to see if its safe. Wait at least an hour before venturing upstairs or outside. If you go never go anywhere alone. Storms like to chain but the most severe will most likely be the first to hit.

    Depending on how you read this you will either end up really dead really quick, or laughing the next day at the shallow end of the gene pool.
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