Bucky in action. Well. As close to action as he gets.
I’m behind on my photos (Sandy’s fault) but I’d be remiss if I didn’t post this ground’s eye view of the great Buckminster Fuller. It took a while to get the shot because I made the mistake of having a pretzel stick in my mouth while shooting. Bucky like them pretzel sticks, or at least, thinks he does.
Sandy cramping my tumblr updates!
Our power is gone, gas is gone, which sucks. They are saying maybe a week with no power, and who knows, maybe shorter, maybe longer. They say there was a major explosion at the 14th st and ave C power station, so repairs could take a long while. Blech. But we’re not in Jersey so it could be much worse.
The water came flowing up 20th st towards 1st ave and the power popped around 8ish. At 9pm our building was almost an island. Basement was totally flooded so even when the power comes back it’ll be weeks (?) before we have a laundry room again.
We don’t know what exactly we’ll do, just rough it and see how all this plays out.
I was right that the storm would hit south of us, but wrong about what that would mean. Jersey got hit hard but so did we in New York City. This is 20th Street on Monday night. I’m standing knee deep in water to take this shot. Later cars will float by. This is insane, mother nature is seriously messing with my city.
Just a short clip to give you a sense of Sandy’s power over by the East River. The rain is light but the wind ranged from strong to incredibly strong. The yellow tape is up to keep people from going near the water, like I did. Police cruise by now and then to shoo stupid people (like me) back to safety.
