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Stunning Photos and Shocking Video of Second Major Northeast Storm as Thousands Lose Power

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

A violent storm above New York City on July 26. (Photo: Inga Sarda-Sorensen via TweetPic)

Thursday evening much of the New York City and its metropolitan areas were issued severe thunderstorm warnings. As of this morning, more than 30,000 are reported to be without power, and Elmira, N.Y., is suspected to have endured a tornado.

Some are calling this latest severe storm to hit the northeast another derecho, comparing it to the violent storm that rolled through much of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and Pennsylvania earlier in the month and knocking out power for thousands customers for several days during an extreme heat wave.

(Related: ‘A Ring of Fire’: Just What Were the Deadly Thunderstorms that Tore Through the Northeast?)

This is also the second severe storm to hit New York City within the last week.

(Related: 5 Stunning Photographs From the Super-Concentrated Storm Over NYC)

National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Nicosia said a helicopter was being dispatched to the Elmira area to assess the damage and determine if it was a tornado.

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

Storm clouds seen near the Bronx (Photo: AFP/Don Emmert)

A state of emergency and curfew were in effect until 8 a.m. in the Elmira, with only emergency vehicles allowed on the streets while fallen trees and power lines were being cleared, Miner said. A shelter was set up at the Elmira Free Academy for residents who didn’t want to stay in homes without power, she said.

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

Fallen trees in Elmira. (Photo: AP/Heather Ainsworth)

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

(Photo: AP/ Heather Ainsworth)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared an emergency for surrounding Chemung County to allow the state to mobilize state resources to assist local governments. “This state of emergency declaration will help the state get critical resources to communities that were hit the hardest,” Cuomo said.

About 16,000 utility customers in Chemung County were still without power early Friday. After the thunderstorms had moved over the New York City area, about 160 Consolidated Edison customers were still without power.

The Long Island Power Authority reported that 284 customers on Long Island were without power as of 3 a.m. Friday. About 17,000 other utility customers in the state also were without power early Friday.

Related to the power outages, a New York resident caught shocking footage of a transformer explosion from his backyard that occurred as a result of the storm. Watch it here (via Fox News Insider):

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

(Photo via CNN)

Violent Storm, Possible Tornado Hits New York

(Photo via CNN iReporter/lila)

The storm that hit Manhattan around 8 p.m. yesterday was reported by CNN iReport producer (via CNN) to have been “intense but short.” After the rain cleared, it was reported the “lightning show began.”

Here is some footage via CNN from the storm as it began brewing:

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This story has been updated to include more video.

Comments (43)

  • Salamander
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:58am

    I was out in the North Atlantic Thursday evening to Sunday evening and Thursday night Friday night and Saturday night was every bit as ‘exciting’ on the water as it was on land–only nowhere to hide, nowhere to go! Rought trip, Sag Harbor, NY to Deltaville, VA. It’s nice to be home!

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  • battles
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 9:28am

    Ho hum, yawn. The pictures depict weekly weather occurrences in Houston, Texas.

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  • Unix
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

    LOL, state of emergency, that is the progressive code for we are taking control, idiots of the left have no other way to do it!

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  • Mopar 1969
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:50pm

    I‘ve done some research and my conclusion is the earth’s axis has shifted 3 degrees.Main reason the weather pattern is out of whack.
    Past two major earthquakes has shifted the poles look it up quite scary.

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:06pm

    Perhaps GOD is trying to tell the socialist democrat leaning north something – maybe not – perhaps it’s just one of those nature things – the earth rotating – the sun doing “it’s thing” this year.

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  • OKC08GT500
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:21pm

    After the first derecho, the really smart people went out and purchased generators and portable air conditioners.

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  • G-WHIZ
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:49pm

    Many outrages are caused by the usage of [ALUMINUM POWER TRANSMITION LINES].
    The power companies used to have COPPER transmition lines which would stretch-out before breaking.
    1] Copper is very flexeible and can, when getting too hot or pulled-on by trees&wind(etc) will streatch-out a large percentage before breakage occurrs.
    2] Copper melts at a much higher temoerature than aluminum and can take a much-greater electrical or physical overload before melting/breaking.
    3] Aluminum-wire, when stretched-slightly, will heat-up greatly from the “streatch”, harden-up and snapp!! Aluminum wire doesn’t “bend-well” before smapping! Aluminum-wire doesn’t streatch far before it heats-up, hardens/becomes-brittle, then snapps!
    4] Aluminum CONDUCTS electricity 50%as well as copper and has to be 50%thicker to cary the same load. Plus you don’t want it to melt-under-load, so you add annother thickness-diameter. This is why the electric-motor-industry uses almost no aluminum to wind their motors! Even the cheepest chineese-electric-micro-shaver uses a copper-wound-motor. The electric motors with aluminum-windings would have to be much larger because of the 50> 60% larger windings internally, and the much-larger cooling-fans built-in to keep the “overload” from melting all the wire.
    When we had storms in the 50′s>70′s you almost never heard of “transmission-lines-snapping”, and creating 100,000outages or more. The COPPER wires streatched and bent instead of

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    • US-First
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:19pm

      Interesting if somewhat less than accurate. Most power cabling with Aluminum are made from ACSR (short for aluminum conductor – steel reinforced). Aluminium is an excellent conductor and because of the increased diameter used the corona effect is reduced in lines under high potential current (no premature discharge of current). It is much lighter than copper so can be used over much greater distances w/o tearing itself apart even without the steal reinforcement used in most applications. Copper is quite expensive compared with aluminum making it more practical economically. Comparing power lines to electric motor winding as an argument for copper power lines is not real convincing.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:21am

    Heat lightening is common out West but uncommon back east where its humid during summer months. Again I am hearing headlines like “This is the worst we’ve ever seen”. We are told that men will fall dead for fear of the things coming upon the earth. Is it getting worse? Is something inside you telling you that something is about to happen? If so, your not alone! People I talk too, some believers in God and some not will agree something is not quite right. Its nagging at them and they either try to ignore it or investigate. If your in the later camp, this urge to do something is a calling from the Lord. Oh yes! He can reach us collectively in many ways. These signs are meant for a purpose, they are to get you ready! They are warnings and urgings! Why else send us signs and wonders? These things all marry up with what we are told in Matthew 24 from the Son of God who was and is and will always be.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:20am

    NYC has thunderstorms……big deal. Houston has weather like that every summer. The straight line winds are more powerful than usual these days. I wonder why?

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    • Whitey4West
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:41am

      Probably all the hot air coming from politicians in DC…

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    • JohhnyB
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:25pm

      No, you don’t. You see, it is only “extreme weather” when it happens to the east coast or the north east. If you live in Texas (summer mega-weather, hot, humid), Arizona (summer mega-heat at 113+), or in Colorado (summer mega storms, hail, wind, tornadoes) then it doesn‘t happen or doesn’t count.
      .
      Either way, the east coast is the ONLY place in this country that experiences summer-time weather.

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    • demokratikhundscheisse
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:57pm

      True, we‘re just ’fly-over’ country……thank God!

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  • I am 'We the People
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:05am

    Wow, people seem to have no clue… For the southwest this is a normal storm cell during monsoon season (late summer through September, i.e. now). While it’s not normal for NYC in the last few decades, these and worse storms used to hit the northeast coast all the time. In fact, they used to come during the winter as well and kill hundreds of people each year.

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:59am

    OMFG clouds!!!! Wow!!

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:42am

    Too bad it wasn’t over Washington, DC…Obama, there is a God.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Obama knows this. He thinks “her” name is Valarie Jarrett or himself. This old boy is in for a world of hurt when it is all said and done.

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  • buubbytraps
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:28am

    Very Effective Wakeup Call by Kent Chemtrails Awareness, UK
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTpQp8Rk9M

    What in the World Are They Spraying? (Full Length)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA

    Don’t believe in chemtrails? Watch this!Watch the sky!Heads Up!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_nkKFXCGE

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  • cranberry
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:24am

    Another story about one large city. It’s like NYC is the only one that matters….very tiring and unimportant.

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  • ep8568
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:22am

    OMG……

    There’s the image of George Soros in those clouds !!!!

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  • buubbytraps
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:02am

    BARIUM ,ALUMINUM OXCIDE, STRONTIUM 90 AND URANIUM 238 ARE BEING SPRAYED ON US VIA CHEMTRAILS
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1al8VrXJEQ
    BARIUM ,ALUMINUM OXCIDE,STRONTIUM 90 AND URANIUM 238 ARE BEING SPRAYED ON US VIA CHEMTRAILS
    North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into synthetic clouds.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:22am

      CHEMTRAILS MAKES ME STRONG!!!!!!!

      how else am i supposed to get my super powers?

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    • buubbytraps
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:29am

      whatever gets you thru the day…

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    • tcseacliff
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:41am

      hey buubbytraps, this means you have to have due diligence to make sure you nevr walk outside without your foil helmet in place (for your protection)!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:27am

      You may have something here Buubby!

      I’ve been watching Socal skys for a few years now when this thing called Chemtrails was brought to my attention. We are seeing out here on the West coast a strange….well…absence of chemtrails for the past few months now. Last year and earlier this year they were everyday. Now the skys have been contrail free. We can see correlations in the weather as well! The contrails do not affect us locally other than giving us some shade, but as they move east and over the Rockys things begin to take affect esp in the midwest with rains and tornado outbreaks. This was when they were heavy and everyday! Now that they are absent we see what? Drought! Isn’t that just a lil weird? I thought so too!

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    • buubbytraps
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:08pm

      ChiefGeorge,
      aye, was same with me and mine ,except was in 1997 i think…saw the chem trails, then saw clouds just evaporate.
      http://www.just-clouds.com/
      New Frontiers in Weather Modification Research

      “Seeding Operations & Atmospheric Research (SOAR) is dedicated to provide weather modification operational services and atmospheric research technologies. SOAR prides itself in being an elite group of researchers and operators with a mission to conduct sound scientific weather modification research and cloud seeding operations efficiently, professionally and safely. SOAR’s goals are to continue researching precipitation processes and atmospheric aerosol interactions, and to improve the capabilities of atmospheric research aircraft with new and modern instrumentation.

      At the center of SOAR’s operations are new frontiers in weather modification. SOAR has conducted operational and research weather modification programs using the most technologically advanced instrumentation available.”

      very interesting site…one of many.

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  • buubbytraps
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:38am

    DIRTY RAIN H1N1: How ChemTrails can use polymers to protect and grow Virus
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytE2q29DOUQ

    Chemtrails H1N1 MURDER via CYTOKINE STORM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LfDITPJd2A

    The insider: chemtrails KC-10 sprayer air to air – The proof ====✈
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSWnXQsgOU

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    • WatchOutForTheRINOShills
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:59am

      You go, BUUBBYTRAPS! Keep reporting the truth and at some point, your message will be validated. At times, I’ve watched SIX different planes in the air spraying over Nashville. Our day starts out with a bright blue sky and once they start spraying, it very quickly morphs into an offwhite haze that still lets some sun shine through but the sky is no longer blue. Some days they spray in the morning and late afternoon. MILLIONS of our tax dollars being spent to kill us…while some people may make fun of you, know that there are millions more who have done our own research, STARTED LOOKING UP, and know what is being done…we will NOT go quietly into that good night… Keep sharing the links so we can forward them on and educate others!! Good work!

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    • buubbytraps
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:59pm

      ty , just trying to get the info out.

      up to the individual to believe or not…

      look up ben livingston…here is 1 link.
      Ben Livingston: The Father of Weaponized Weather
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKl9rqw1Ykw

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  • mikefromaltoona
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:37am

    Send in the Ghostbusters!

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  • karenm
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:36am

    That storm hit West Virginia back in June. We don’t ever get mentioned though. The power was out for 10 days for some. We are all in big trouble if we have a real disaster. The Huffington post did write an article about the “coal baron” who owns the Greenbrier Hotel. People were actually mad because they wanted to get the power back on for a golf tournament which brings in lots of money and creates jobs in a very small town where it’s located. People don’t have a clue.

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    • JohhnyB
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:39pm

      No, you don’t. You see, it is only “extreme weather” when it happens to the east coast or the north east. If you live in Texas (summer mega-weather, hot, humid), Arizona (summer mega-heat at 113+), or in Colorado (summer mega storms, hail, wind, tornadoes) then it doesn‘t happen or doesn’t count. For example, when it hits 85-90 degrees in NYC then the concrete sidewalks melt. But when it is 118 in Scottsdale, meh, just another day. (Didja ever notice that thermometers only go to 120?)
      .
      Either way, it is quite obvious the east coast is the ONLY place in this country that experiences summer-time weather or summer-time heat.
      .
      (BTW, I am a extreme weather photographer and have lived in PA, MD, Arizona, currently living in Colorado. My WORST southwest storm pictures blow these away any day.)

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  • Tirabi
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:25am

    If it doesn’t happen to NYC, I guess it doesn’t happen. Stupid people act like this is some rare event. We see this at least every week.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:43am

      Too bad Elmira got in the way .. NYC I can understand .. but not Elmira ;-) by the way that is right near a place that we stayed in once .. and I will never forget the name of that city — Horseheads, NY.

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    • gosutag
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:14am

      It just looks better when it happens over the NYC skyline.

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  • Armyduderetired
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:18am

    Big fen deal….

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:12am

    …
    God is mad at all those liberal jerks, who voted for the anti-Christ.

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  • randy
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:11am

    Have we all turned into a nation of wimps?

    My God, It’s a thunderstorm people…… They happen from time to time.
    Even as a kid, and long before the global warming started killing all the polar bears, I think I remember many of them.
    .

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:36am

      The polar bear population counted by feet on the ground locals- is up. When counted by fly over ‘scientists,‘ it’s down…..who has an agenda? You pick

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:22am

      RANDY, I hope I’m hearing sarcasm about polar bears. I just love how the whales from the 90s have morphed into the polar bears of the 00s and coming soon they shall morph into the tigers of the 10s. Maybe in the 20s they will turn the tigers loose in the midwest to hunt down all of the cows who are causing global warming with their unregulated flatulence.

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    • vanman4446
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 4:21pm

      You think???? MMMMMM I don’t think you remember at all

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  • STARSANDSTRIPES4EVR
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:06am

    Welcome to Florida. This is what we call “normal” weather.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:12am

      STARSANDSTRIPES4EVR, I understand what you mean, I lived in Tampa for five years. It’s the about the same here in Alabama too.

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