Powerful, fast-moving storms roared through much of the Northeast on Tuesday night, killing at least five people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Drenching rains and winds that reached 60 mph tore down trees and power lines, destroyed homes and even ripped a roof off a central New York restaurant.
In rural Smithfield, N.Y., four people died when high winds turned at least four homes into rubble. Many more were damaged, Undersheriff John Ball said.
“Our thoughts are with the families,” the National Weather Service announced through its Binghamton, N.Y., office. “We will have multiple survey teams across central New York and NEPA (northeastern Pennsylvania) … to determine the cause of damage.”
A mother and daughter were among three who died in Smithfield, family members have told WTVH television in Syracuse.
More than 70,000 people remained without power in the state early Wednesday.
In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, heavy winds caused a large tree to fall at approximately 10:00 pm on Carroll Street between Kingston and Albany Avenues, damaging at least five cars.
Thankfully no one was injured, although the street was blocked off for a few hours until the debris could be removed.
hope children would be ok
Ok. That’s your opinion.
Go look it up, anytime they tried pressuring Israel, crazy storms/fires/flooding etc happened around that time that wasn’t a regular weather storm….
I wish I could take your comment seriously.
Due to NYC budget restraints the policy of pruning and checking older trees has been suspended for years now. We called the Parks Dept to investigate as we have dangerous branches hanging from overgrown trees up and down our entire block and they said they will only respond if every person on the block petitions together for a special pruning. Two years ago a fallen branch totalled our car and just missed a group of small children playing outside on the sidewalk! Yes. This could be a terrible tragedy waiting to happen. Perhaps one of our neighborhood organizations could get… Read more »
From the pictures it’s clear that this tree is rotten. Why is their no one checking this trees and cutting the rotten parts before they damage or kill something-one??
America….just keep pressuring Israel to restrain themselves and support the arabs and G-d will keep bringing storms and crazy weather and create havoc in your own country(as we see the and time again….at times America pressures Israel, crazy storms take place….look it up…)
omg that is terrible. im glad no injeries