No reservation? No safety!
A extreme thunderstorm wreaked havoc in Sag Harbor Saturday amid Fourth of July celebrations, ripping timber from the bottom and throwing something that wasn’t bolted down into the air.
5 minutes after the top of the fireworks, “all hell broke unfastened,” we’re instructed.
However a supply instructed Web page Six that bustling French bistro Le Bilboquet had turned away folks in search of shelter – as a result of they did not have reservations.
“Emergency alerts went off [the] cellphone informing us there have been 80 mph winds and to take shelter. Folks have been crowding inside their boats, working and screaming outdoors,” they mentioned.
“They weren’t letting folks in. They have been like, “Do you could have a reservation?” They left folks outdoors with 80 mph winds,” a supply added.
One other supply described the scene across the restaurant, saying “umbrellas and dishes fell and injured a number of folks seconds after the fireworks ended.”
“A lady was pushed to the bottom. One other girl’s leg [was] minimize,” they mentioned.
Peter Cook dinner, Morris Moinian, Howard Sobel, Maria Fishel and Sydney Sadick have been all seen “working for canopy,” they added.
Philippe Delgrange, proprietor of Bilboquet, instructed us they did their finest. “All of the folks outdoors, from the very giant terrace, have been moved inside safely and we managed the group as finest we may. [we] may guarantee the security and luxury of our clients,” he mentioned.
We study that the individuals who have been repressed fled to an American resort.
In the meantime, in Calissa in Southampton, “the storm tore down 20 ft of fence, a tree fell and but 100 folks have been left there. [see] Sam Ronson is taking part in,” a supply mentioned. “Fucking loopy,” they added.
Some New Yorkers minimize quick their go to to the Hamptons and returned to the town on Sunday, we hear.
“Half the town has no electrical energy or web! When you’re not linked to the web, you are screwed,” one particular person mentioned.
In Montauk, downed energy traces on the tracks led to the suspension of service, with the primary practice leaving at 3:15 p.m., forcing some to pay for costly Ubers to get again into city.