Here are some pictures of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
We took a walk the morning Sandy was moving out. This is a picture of the Holland Tunnel closed, I think from Broom Street. 2012-10-30
DoS parking garage construction at Spring and West Streets. The fence around the site was blown down and equipment was strewn about everywhere. 2012-10-30
A close up of the red box in the picture above. 2012-10-30
I suspect that the crane was folded for the storm rather than that it fell. Same site. 2012-10-30
The water was high enough to lift this NY Water Taxi pier off of three of four piles. 2012-10-30
Student charging their electronics in the lobby of a New School building that had a generator. West 13th Street. 2012-10-30
The front fell off this building just above 14th Street on Eighth Avenue. 2012-11-01
A worker taking calls on a butt phone in a building with no heat and no power for the phone system. 2012-11-01
Power was restored all around us before we got power. View from tar beach, looking North. 2012-11-02
Looking South, towards the financial district. 2012-11-02
Riverside park. The iron fence this tree crushed is about four feet high. 2012-11-10
Nothing to do with Sandy really. This hidden church(?) has been revealed by the demolition of Saint Vincent’s Hospital. A few days later this building was gone. 2012-11-14
On December 1, we took a walk all the way downtown, walking downtown by the Hudson River and part way up through the Financial District. The first signs that things were still amiss were these green generators and men in white hazmat suits.
I managed a project at 85 Broad Street once. Likely I shouldn’t disclose details of their emergency preparedness plans, but I will say they were under the impression that they were ready for anything.
Here’s a view of the same building from South William St.
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Oh, the memories!
I know what a butt call is, but what’s a butt phone?
Oh, the memories!
I know what a butt call is, but what’s a butt phone?
A “lineman’s test set.”