A Tornado Grows In Brooklyn

I've been working on one of those "extreme-weather" shows, and we've proposed every scenario under the sun, and I don't think we even got around to New York City tornado.

National Weather Service Confirms Tornado Touched Down in Brooklyn National Weather Service meteorologists, investigating storm damage in the Bay Ridge area with New York City Emergency Management officials, have confirmed that a tornado did in fact touch down on parts of Brooklyn Wednesday morning. The tornado's heavy winds, estimated to have been up to 111 to 135 miles per hour, tore through sections of Brooklyn, damaging roughly 40 buildings and downing dozens of trees. Residents in the Bay Ridge, Flatbush and Sunset Park neighborhoods reported damaged houses and hundreds of crushed cars along several blocks.

I hope somebody had a camera, because that will be valuable footage for Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich down the road.

The planet is kind of freaking out with the natural disasters, no? Wasn't there a cyclone in the Middle East earlier this year? And then there was that Robin Williams movie where he played the priest...

I wonder if a certain rising of temperatures and changing of sea levels can account for this rise in extreme weather events...