Powerful storms this weekend left damage and power outages across Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
News 12 spoke with East Flatbush residents dealing with the aftermath of storms over the past few days. <\/p>\n
Hellmuth Tescorbeth tells News 12 he had to get a rental car after his car was stuck under a tree since Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI rent this for one week for $500. I don\u2019t know how long I will keep it,” said Tescorbeth.<\/p>\n
Luckily, cleanup crews came to free up his car. While the car had a broken side mirror and back windshield, he says he’s happy he can access it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I\u2019m happy I can get back in. That\u2019s good for me, man,” said Tescorbeth.<\/p>\n
Just blocks away, Cleda Nichols says residents took matters into their own hands to clear the street until cleanup crews arrived days later.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to clean it up ourselves. It was all here on this across the street,” said Nichols.<\/p>\n
The New York City Parks Department says they’ve been working tirelessly to deal with the storm aftermath, prioritizing things like trees in houses and road blockages. A spokesperson says they got more than 2,000 service requests from Friday’s storm. In the wake of Sunday and Monday’s storms, they said as of Tuesday at 1 p.m., they had 1,056 outages, with 302 of them for downed trees.<\/p>\n
Driver Conrad Manning says the downed trees are a road hazard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s inconvenient because it\u2019s one-sided traffic, so you have to stop, slow down and wait for the other people to pass,” said Manning.<\/p>\n