A violent 70-80 mile per hour tornado like storm uprooted trees, knocked down power lines, and dominated news headlines Thursday night in New York City and I live to tell about it!

The magnitude of the destruction crystallized once I observed the Brooklyn 41 bus stuck in traffic on Eastern Parkway, way off from its Flatbush avenue route. Turns out, felled trees completely shut down approximately a half-mile of the normally bustling Flatbush commuter avenue.

Trains did not fair much better, as the storm halted much of the Long Island Railway system and slowed city subway service. Over 45,000 homes were without power. Could this storm possibly be related to climate change?

Certainly seems to fit the mold of the larger, expected trend of “extreme weather.”