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Hail, Yes: Crazy Storm Hits, Flooding In Brooklyn & Manhattan
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 11, 2010
Modified Oct 12, 2010
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Well, that was something else: After a beautiful day, the evening brought a sudden thunderstorm to the NYC area—hail "the size of macadamia nuts" (as one reader who sent a photo put it) bombarded Brooklyn so severely that snow-like mounds formed. There's also flooding, and the Jets-Vikings game, which was supposed to start at 8:30 p.m., was delayed until 9:15 p.m. because of lightning! Check out these videos:
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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