My Neighborhood Was Just Massacred By Hurricane Isaias

ASTORIA, NYC- Admittedly, it didn’t seem like much. For 60 seconds the wind and and rain blew like wild and then it was over. But when I went outside the carnage revealed itself. Trees had blown down across streets, trees had blown down on top of homes, and trees had blown down on top of cars. A few blocks away a steel traffic signal pole had been severed from its base and laid dead across the street, it’s lights smashed into a thousand shards of red, yellow, and green. For the second time in a month, my neighborhood Astoria trended on Twitter.

When you live in a city you sometimes forget that nature exists. You feel comforted by your man-made bubble of concrete and steel. Then, in a matter of a minute, you are shaken awake by the reality that the mighty city that nurtures and protects you is but a floppy rag doll to nature.

First the Sars-Cov-2 lockdown, then the riots, and now a hurricane. What a year.

rip to my car. #HurricaneIsaias #Astoria pic.twitter.com/6njSAskJyU

— saveeeno (@saveeeno) August 5, 2020

You may be having a bad day but whomever's car this is in #Astoria Maybe having a worse one #NYC #HurricaneIsaias #Isaias pic.twitter.com/DUhzMI7RlN

— MeRk (@Merk256) August 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/ZachariahBoyer/status/1290730839840628736

36th street in #Astoria at least 4 trees down, 3 on 1 block btwn 30th and 31st. #1010WINS pic.twitter.com/bhkTV1w52D

— Samantha Liebman (@SamiLiebman) August 4, 2020

#astoria #storm photos- not my pics but #Astoria nonetheless #TropicalStormIsaias #newyork pic.twitter.com/EoZeiseXzN

— Linda Rohe (@coastalent1) August 4, 2020