Good thing friends let me know what to expect by phone message and text, because while I was in boring meetings in Manhattan, a tornado-like storm barraged through Brooklyn. I'll get better pictures 
(and see the apparently very widespread damage) tomorrow, but here's an impression of what greeted me on the walk from Grand Army Plaza home. This tree on Vanderbilt was simply snapped off by the wind.
I've no picture of the tree in front of our building, as most of it's gone.
