“Last night was pretty bad, it was just cracking ... It’s a lot of beautiful trees, it’s very sad.” She said that her dog’s favorite tree was gone.
Jill, a worker from the parks department, was on the scene near 103rd Street. She said that the storm was a microburst, an intense column of sinking air which causes strong divergent winds.
She said that last year there was a similar storm a few blocks away on 96th street.
James Morgan, a porter, was out on the street during the storm. “I’ve never seen anything like that before up here, I was scared,” he said.
Another local, Robin McMahon, said he heard it from a distance in his apartment.
“It sounded like a home theater and it kept getting closer and closer. The trees were swinging.”
At least one car was hit by a tree resulting in a completely smashed back window and and a cracked front windshield. A local worker said the person inside the car was fine but the car was extremely damaged.
