Updated Sept. 9, 2012 10:40 a.m.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Cleanup is under way after a pair of powerful, funnel-shaped clouds landed in New York City on Saturday.
The first tornado swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood and the second, stronger twister hit moments later, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.