Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Tornado touched down

上個星期四(9/16)傍晚原本我打算帶nini外出買牛奶,看突然變得那麼黑,也就沒出去。五點半紐約市區突然發布Tornado Warning!「Tornado Warning For Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The Office of Emergency Management issued alerts for this crazy weather, "Alert issued 9/16/10 at 5:35 PM. The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning until 6:00 PM in Staten Island and Brooklyn. Immediately go indoors and/or to the lowest floor of your building for shelter. Stay away from windows," and "Tornado Warning issued for Queens until 6 PM. Take shelter on lower floors. Stay away from windows." There's definitely hail hitting in Brooklyn.」

天空一片黑,外面狂風大雨外加閃電、打雷和冰雹的聲音,把nini嚇半死,一直問:「那是什麼聲音?那是什麼聲音?」

短短的十幾二十分鐘過後,我們家附近慘不忍睹!我們住的地方,Forest Hills,是龍捲風掃過災情慘重的其中之一個地區!! Forest Hills顧名思義有很多很多的樹,在紐約市的住宅區並不是有那麼多地方都有綠意盎然的百年大樹,有樹蔭、有新鮮空氣,住在這兒是該要珍惜,要感恩。但也因為這次的龍捲風, Forest Hills一堆大大小小的樹倒了一大堆~~

路樹攔腰折斷就算了,還有很多路樹被連根拔起,連人行道的水泥塊都被拔起來!!!樹倒得亂七八糟,有的砸到路邊停的車子、有的倒在路中間、有的砸到人家的房子!!真的很恐怖~~~

又因為正值下班時間,造成嚴重的交通問題,因為倒了很多樹造成路不通、要改道、塞車、地鐵某些路段停開。我們有很多朋友傍晚下班一直到半夜才回到家。我們星期六在高速公路上還看到被吹垮 、吹倒的出口指示標誌!








一直到今天,都已經過了六天了,還有一大堆樹枝、樹幹放在路邊,甚至還有很多大樹還沒鋸完(因為要把樹幹鋸成小段才能夠用卡車運走)...


NY Times的報導

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW
Looks really bad.
Ling

Esther said...

ling,

是阿...慘....