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  1. I live in the Flatbush area & the last strike was probably about a mile, if that, away.
    The weird thing is that if I had not bothered reading the news, weather underground, and a couple of Brooklyn-based blogs (hi!), I would still have no idea about the whole thing.
    I did, however, manage to somehow turn this bizarrely uneventful close call into 3 posts. Actually there will be one more post that wouldn’t have happened without the storm, but that one in going to be about how unbelievably cool the old Loew’s Kings movie theater (movie PALACE) is, so I don’t know if that counts.

  2. Saw lots of trees down along Beverley Road and on Ocean Parkway, some really big, old trees. Pulling up concrete as they fell..Was this just a big wind on its own or related/the aftermath to the twister that passed through Bay Ridge..?
    I noted that a lot of construction fences and sheds also blew down along Coney Island Avenue.
    Driving to my office in Brooklyhn Heights, after heavy traffic, approaching Flatbush Avenue and Third Avenue, there was a little lightning, and my car’s electrical system went kerflooey. I turned everything extraneous off and just made it into a parking lot at which point the car went into death mode.
    Later in the day, I made it to a service station where they said, yup, it is the battery, and that they had seen a lot of dead batteries that day, maybe as a result of electrical interference from the storm.
    One other bizarre image: in Brooklyn Heights, about 8:30 AM, there was rain pouring down in the middle of Court Street, only NOT NEAR ANY BUILDINGS..lots of folks stopped to look up and try to see where it was coming from..there was no overhang or construction that could have caused it, and we wondered “weather” it was a passing waterspout, or whatever, only fortunately way way overhead..
    As they used to say, “Everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it” — is this extreme weather due to warming or just a natural spike of extreme weather..

  3. I was asleep safe and sound in my Park Slope apartment five miles away. I didn’t hear a thing. That’s my compelling story!

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