Lightning

Poet Jon Cotner sent this to Harriet's weather desk early this morning:

An unusually intense New York City thunderstorm erupted at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, September 16, 2010, and ended thirty minutes later. All over the city trees came down. Here the storm's chaotic rise and sudden fall are narrated—collaboratively, spontaneously—via Facebook.

You can read more about Cotner's most recent book, Ten Walks/Two Talks, in this essay by Poetry Foundation contributor Franklin Bruno.