Moviegoers at a Sheepshead Bay theater got an unexpected show Thursday night when water began pouring into the building during severe thunderstorms that swept across the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Videos shared by patrons show water cascading from the ceiling and onto the concession area inside the Regal theater, creating a scene that looked more like a storm shelter than a movie theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the indoor downpour, many customers stayed put, waiting in line for snacks before their films.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was shocked because I come here like every other week,” said one moviegoer. “I actually had tickets to come to the movies this morning. I had already purchased them, so I told my daughter, ‘Look, I’m just going to cancel it because they couldn’t possibly have this ready by tomorrow morning.’ The toughest thing would be if we didn’t have snacks.”<\/p>\n
One family told News 12 they were inside an auditorium when the water first started flowing and initially thought it was somehow connected to the movie they were watching.<\/p>\n
“It looked kind of funny,” one patron said. “Then people started getting all stirred up like it was a big thing. I figured if it was serious, somebody would have said something.”<\/p>\n
According to theater staff, this was the first time they had experienced flooding like this inside the building. Employees cleaned the affected areas and restored operations in about an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Customers who returned the following day said they were relieved the damage wasn’t worse, especially as the theater was recently renovated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Brooklyn doesn’t have many of these theaters,” said moviegoer Kelso. “It would suck if things were to escalate.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
By Saturday, business had returned to normal. Employees said repairs are being made to help prevent similar issues during future storms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moviegoers at a Sheepshead Bay theater got an unexpected show Thursday night when water began pouring into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-316981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}