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Nemo Flirts with NYC - There is no Business like Snow Business
February 12, 2013

Winter storm Nemo came and went, leaving the New York area dusted with up to 10 inches of snow and other parts of New England choked by up to two feet of it. But really, as far as the Big Apple is concerned, if this was Nemo, then the blizzard of two years ago must have been Bruce. All teeth yet so soft and fuzzy Bruce was. And pretty much paralyzed the city. Nearby states of Massachusetts and Connecticut were not so lucky. Record accumulation, state of emergency, death toll, they got it all. The CEO of the Weather...

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Jamaica Bay in a Hazy Shade of Winter*
January 26, 2012

I was out on winter park photography assignment for my favorite writer who was unable to attend and shoot her own stunning pictures, and my hesitant steps eventually took me back to  Gateway National Recreation Area's Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Yes, this is in New York. In Queens, to be precise. The city had finally scored a modest first snowfall of the year. Short of digging an igloo for my cat in the snow-covered terrace as I had done the previous year, I decided to avoid the slushed out city streets and head for...

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First snow
October 30, 2011

It would seem this was a first, ever. It snowed yesterday in New York, after a very mild October had us fooled. When I woke up to howling wind, thick, wet flurries were being tossed around between a heavy gray sky and weak trees who just couldn't believe it. There even was thunder at one point, another first in my own experience. But I'm stuck at home with a cold and while the weather has now turned sparkling clean, I didn't see the patches of snow that were left here and there. Marie was out roaming, though, and will...

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New York Under a State of Emergency as Hurricane Irene Closes In
August 26, 2011

I have mixed feelings about all this. Been there too many times. Felt the worry, seen the damage, experienced it on a level that closely resembles fascination, the morbid kind, but always with a small part of my brain remaining the cold, objective observer that just thinks: "Is this what the final dive down feels like?" With the MTA public transit grid initiating a system-wide shutdown tomorrow Saturday at noon, with a mandatory evacuation of the lowest lying areas of the five boroughs already issued, with 26 tower...

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Airbus A380 Transatlantic Flight
January 2, 2011

Slowly sipping my coffee, I looked around me with unbelieving eyes. The large waiting area of gate A6 at JFK's Terminal 4 was full. It was hard to grasp that all these passengers were going to fit on board a single plane. But then again, the giant aircraft parked just outside in the cold, on a snowy tarmac, was no ordinary plane. The Emirates Airbus A380-800 about to whisk us over the Atlantic all the way to Dubai - at 41,000 feet and close to the speed of sound - was simply the largest passenger jet ever built. Here...

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Words are just that
December 7, 2006

Knowledge is like a sharp pain between the eyes. It throbs and hurts and makes us wince.Awareness is a curse that will leave us naked in the worst of blizzards, shivering and begging for a break or a moment of sleep.Growth is in the end nothing but the early stages of the final fall, necessary yet futile.Sadness is a deep, dark lake into which we feel compelled to dive once in a while to wash off the sweat of brief happiness.And words are just that. Words. They’ll occasionally get one...

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