Blessings in Huntington Bay Hills

As everyone knows by now, a wicked storm ripped through Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island last evening. The evening commute home was paralyzed.  My husband boarded his train at about 5:30 and didn't get to Long Island till midnight.  After 10pm everyone was told they had to disembark, walk about 15 minutes to a subway station where they could get a train to Jamaica station.  Even then, he wasn't able to get a train to Huntington.  I picked him up after midnight in Hicksville, about a half hour away from our home.  The husband of a friend of mine was stuck on the Grand Central Parkway due to the storm and didn't get home until 4AM.   In the Bay Hills area of Huntington, a charming beach community with narrow winding streets, several huge trees went down.  Miraculously, no one was hurt. The trees were amazingly close to the homes, one of which belongs to the family of my daughter's best friend. 

Was it a tornado or just tremendous wind sheer?  It may take a long time to know. What we do know is that by the grace of God, no one was hurt in the Bay Hills area.