of tornados, phlegm, and doing better next time around

Over the weekend, the weather experts confirmed what I figured out by driving down Sixth Avenue the morning after last week's big storm and seeing scene after scene like this:

And like this:

Yes, Auntie Em, it was a twister. All around my neighborhood of Park Slope, trees uprooted. Not just knocked down but torn up FROM THE ROOTS. Even I, a girl from the Coasts, understood that this kind of specific destruction comes from tornadoes. But tornadoes happen in Kansas. In Oklahoma. In Texas. But in...