Jun 12, 2009 8:04 am US/Eastern
Rough Weather Topples Tree Onto Queens House
Reporting
Jay Dow
QUEENS (CBS) ―
The rough weather overnight made a mess of things in New York.
"At 3 o'clock this morning, I'm in bed asleep, I heard this big thundering sound, and didn't know what it was," said Hollis resident Jeff Jeffries.
What he found wasn't pretty. A tall tree was uprooted and sprawled across 188th Street.
It crashed onto Jeff's house, causing significant damage.
"The way it looks, it came out pretty full force, if you see the fence all twisted up, and the top of the house that got busted and torn apart," Jeffries said.
Construction already closed down one section of 188th St. The Fire Department says the tree is too large for the local fire engine to remove. Instead the job will be left to the Parks Department.
The rough and tumble weather also caused flooding in Massapequa on Long Island, where big trucks managed to wade through, but drivers of smaller cars wisely thought twice about attempting to drive through.
In New Jersey, driving rain on Rt. 17 South in Paramus forced drivers to take it slow, and it was even more slow going heading into the city on the George Washington Bridge, where fog reduced visibility.
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