[-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

Wed Oct 31 01:36:56 EST 2012

A good number of our key people for the Remediating the Social event are caught up in this storm. We also hope they are OK and can get on their flights to Edinburgh asap.

best

Simon

On 30 Oct 2012, at 14:22, Renate Ferro wrote:

> To all of the empyreans on the East Coast of the US please be safe.
> From here in Upstate New York we have been watching television and
> news reports.  We have certainly had rain and wind but the brunt of
> the storm seems to be in the New York, New Jersey, Ct. and Maryland
> coastal areas. Alan please keep us posted and to anyone else with
> power feel free to post documentation.  We are thinking of you.
> Renate and Tim
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Cynthia Beth Rubin <cbr at cbrubin.net> wrote:
>> As long as we are talking about the hurricane, those of us in Connecticut
>> just saw a very distressed Governor on television.  Apparently there are a
>> significant number of people who refused to leave their homes despite
>> mandatory evacuations for those on the shoreline.  The water now surrounds
>> their homes.  They cannot be easily reached, they no longer can leave, and
>> the worst of the water surge is yet to come.  In other words, they face
>> serious danger.
>> 
>> What makes people refuse to leave their home?  Is there a deeper sense of
>> belonging to place that defies logic?   Or do they want to face down the
>> hurricane like a demon?
>> 
>> Cynthia
>> 
>> ps - I live 1.5 miles uphill from the water - so fairly safe here
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Jon Lebkowsky wrote:
>> 
>> 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/sandyh2.mp3
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh3.mp3
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh4.mp3
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh5.mp3
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh6.mp3
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh07.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh08.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh09.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh10.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh11.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh12.jpg
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy2.mp4
>>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy1.mp4
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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