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By: WROC-TV
Updated: August 9, 2007
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BROOKLYNTORNADO2007-08-09-1186680262.jpgBrooklyn is picking up the pieces after what just might be the first tornado to hit New York City in almost a hundred and twenty years. 


Cars were crushed by trees -- even sidewalks were ripped up. Meteorologists say the tornado packed winds of around 135 miles an hour.   It was enough to snap hundred-year-old trees in half.  Roofs were torn from row houses. 


The Red Cross says at least 30 families took shelter in an elementary school in The Bay Ridge area.

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