An "unpublished" spotting location on the College Point shoreline, the same place where I cut my hand open and required surgery, has had a bad couple of days.
First, yesterday morning a man in Flushing killed a girl he was in love with, and stole her car and tried to off himself by driving it into Flushing Bay (ARTICLE)...down the very hill where I go shooting for skyline shots.
This afternoon I decided to go there and survey any damage. I show up about an hour after the bad storms passed through, and the assembled crowds tell me they saw funnels coming down from the sky, which uprooted two large trees, damaging a home, destroying another home and two cars, knocking down power lines and blocking the street...not 20 feet from where the car launched off the cliff. Thankfully no one was injured in any of the cars or homes.
Here are cell phone pics:
I was watching this storm form and move all day...it was only a fairly typical thunderstorm until it came across the Bronx, where it turned dark red.
Weather report:
Radar:AT 240 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL... AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITESTONE... OR NEAR THROGS NECK BRIDGE... AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH
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