Storm center

Using up all my storm headlines in one night... Anyway! Many thanks to James Maher for sharing these photos...

Find more of his work here.

The incoming storm tonight

Wow. Photos by Bobby Williams.

It was a dark and stormy night — really

Photo by Crazy Eddie

Temporary traffic light down at Houston and Norfolk

Well, that was a helluva 10-minute storm...

A reader delivers this report:

That quick storm that blew through the neighborhood tonight knocked down a huge temporary traffic light/street lamp pole and attached wires on Houston St in front of the Red Square building. DOT has been doing work here as part of the Houston St construction project and put up these temporary light poles a couple of months ago. As usual, looks like they went with the cheapest contractor and subsequently got shoddy, unsafe work. You can see the knocked over pole in the middle of the pictures. It looks like it wasn't secured to anything, and the concrete base was blown right over by the wind from the storm. The gold SUV across the street swerved to miss the falling wires and hit another pole, but shortly after drove away. Luckily no one else was hurt.

So will workers just prop the pole back up and leave it to fall over again the next time a thunderstorm rolls through?

Houston temporarily closed between A and B

And samo notes that Houston is closed between A and B due to the downed temporary light pole...

Southern Manhattan, 2:45 p.m., June 17

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Storm damage at the Tompkins Square Park dog run

EV Grieve reader Allen Semanco passes along these photos showing last night's storm damage ...

Meanwhile, no word yet on these limbs.

And how was your storm last night?

Lightning strike at The Ludlow?

Zap! GammaBlog has some incredible video from last night's storm... Did lightning strike the Ludlow? (Top photo from GammaBlog's Flickr; whole thing via Curbed)



In any event, I'm hoping that the Bethenny Frankel statue atop The Ludlow wasn't damaged...

It's electric

Wow. The talented and amazing James and Karla Murray took this storm shot this evening over the East Village...

It was a dark and stormy night...

I stood on Avenue B at Sixth Street last evening trying to get photos of the brilliant displays of lightning to the north... wasn't successful...





GammaBlog shot this video of the storm looking from Houston looking north...



Meanwhile, love was in the air!

Per Craigslist:

We watched the lightning storm - m4w (East Village)

Alright, I feel absolutely ridiculous posting on here, but if we met watching a lightning storm last night, and you're actually on this site, I figure it'd be worth a shot....

Meanwhile meanwhile...

Assessing the storm damage

In Tompkins Square Park. Anything else?

Seven photos of the sky taken between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. yesterday

East Village Podcasts has some really nice shots of the storm clouds too.