The severe storms spared the city and targeted northern parts of the tri-state, dumping buckets of hail in Ulster County that piled up quickly — almost looking like mounds of snow.

Ms. Miller, 38, a digital marketing director, and Mr. Mersky, 50, a lawyer, know two couples from the city who have followed them to Accord, an Ulster County hamlet in the town of Rochester.

The severe storms spared the city and targeted northern parts of the tri-state, dumping buckets of hail in Ulster County that piled up quickly — almost looking like mounds of snow.