Lucid Culture

As reported in today’s NY Times:

“According to the National Weather Service, a tornado touched down in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn just after 6:30 a.m. and traveled northeast, damaging homes and tearing the roof off a Nissan car dealership before dissipating.

The tornado forced the evacuation of 20 buildings, leaving 32 families without shelter, the city buildings department said. Another 50 buildings experienced some damage.

On 58th Street in Sunset Park, Lanie Mastellone watched her ceilings collapse one by one. ‘Then when I opened the door to get out of the actual apartment,’ she said, ‘that’s when I realized I had no roof.’

Jeffrey M. Warner, a meteorologist at University, said that the tornado was the first one to hit Brooklyn since at least 1950, when modern record-keeping began. It was the first tornado to hit New York City since 2003, when a weak tornado touched down in Staten Island, and only the sixth tornado recorded in the city since 1950, Mr. Warner said.”

 I missed the Shaolin tornado but ever since I saw that waterspout over the Hudson in 2002, I knew it only had to be a matter of time.

 Manhattan, next? Hollywood must be waiting with bated breath.

What’s the opposite of a towering inferno? A towering…waterspout?

 Maybe OJ can revisit his old role and finally get the exoneration, the “rehabilitation,” the requisite Oprah appearance and book deal with whoever’s taken over from Judith Regan…

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