Sandy's Aftermath: Chaos in the Rockaways
Exactly two weeks after long inhibited category 1 hurricane Sandy unleashed her post-tropical moods on the Eastern Seaboard, much remains to be done in New York towards a complete recovery.
So many still lack power and heat that the drama is wearing off and both media and public awareness are slowly drifting away from the crisis, their senses blunted by 15 days of sensationalist news bombing.
So on Sunday when I escaped downtown Brooklyn for a quick getaway to Dead Horse Bay, curious to see what new relics the storm might have excavated and in search of a fleeting berry for Marie who was busy writing, the unmistakable soundtrack of heavy trucks and machinery operating non-stop across the inlet on the Rockaways did not really register until I was about to leave.
It was a bit before 4 PM, the winter sun was dropping hastily towards a hazy horizon and I was going to call it a day, when I finally decided to aim my long telephoto lens at the source of such noisy activity.
I was shocked to discover small hills on the Rockaways peninsula where none had existed. Focusing more tightly, I made out trucks queuing up and excavators crawling up the terrain, their enormous single claw opening and closing endlessly.
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Ces photos sont belles à pleurer. Sans doute le contraste entre la tristesse d’avant et leur rayonnante sérénité.
Vince, your beautiful photos belie the chaos and destruction that has over taken lower Manhattan. Thank you for posting them and I hope that circumstances improve soon.