[-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

[Jon Lebkowsky]

Relieved that you're okay. Those sound files brought it home to us.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
> The roaring's from the wind rumbling over the tarps; we repaired the
> skylights with shower curtains, tarps, duct tape, gorilla tape, and bungee
> cords - and it's still holding. But we went out walking for a half hour,
> just got back, and it was like a JG Ballard novel, huge metal advertising
> signs crumpled and all over the avenue, moving everywhere in pieces at high
> speed, we had to be careful we didn't get hit. And the sound of clanging
> scraping metal everywhere. It was fantastic. Meanwhile elsewhere in the
> area, already deaths, flooding tunnels, etc. We've been lucky so far.
>
> - Alan
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote:
>
>  what is the roaring inside your building? you write as if from inside a
>> sinking ship, as in Edgar Allen Poe's short story...
>>
>> On 10/29/12 8:04 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Everyone I know is documenting the storm and putting it up online. The
>>> reality as such is troubling; listening to the police radio gives an idea
>>> of the degree people are in trouble. At the moment the situatio is more
>>> severe, small explosions, more fires, flooding everywhere. So far we're
>>> okay but the roaring inside our place is almost 80 db consistently. Is this
>>> the Singularity come early?
>>>
>>> - Alan
>>>
>>> Hurricane Sandy
>>>
>>> some audio files - sounds from inside our place from the skylights;
>>> playing nepalese sarangi and sarangi with the sounds; police radio - note
>>> the stranded cars with water rising, fires, etc.; a few shots from our
>>> excursion out with Gary Wiebke holding the piece of wallboard that almost
>>> killed me, and a tree around the corner which has split and killed a
>>> smaller ginko next to it as well. The buoy videos fascinate me, taken from
>>> a Brooklyn waterfront pier yesterday as the storm approached.
>>>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh1.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh1.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh2.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh2.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh3.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh3.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh4.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh4.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh5.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh5.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh6.mp3<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh6.mp3>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh07.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh07.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh08.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh08.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh09.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh09.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh10.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh10.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh11.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh11.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**sandyh12.jpg<http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh12.jpg>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**buoy2.mp4<http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy2.mp4>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/**buoy1.mp4<http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy1.mp4>
>>>
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