Just wanted to share this amazing arial photo of NYC after Hurricane Sandy, which is on the cover of New York Magazine. I've been saying how downtown was most effected and this really shows that. I'm so jealous I wish I took it (if I had a helicopter of course, though I don't like heights :)
@amandalomonaco@mittens@nadaa@socalgal - For those of you not familiar with NYC (Nada I know you are), that dark area is populated by over 1 million people.
@nadaa - Yes agreed! Once power came back we saw for the first time what was really going on in Staten Island, Brooklyn/Queens ocean front communites and of course the Jersey shore. So we count our blessings too :)
An amazingly beautiful shot without the big dark spot in the middle, and scarily beautiful with it. Yes would have been amazing to be on the chopper to get that shot or one just like it. :)
Puts the news we have been hearing into perspective about what and where and how much, of course I'm sure that doesn't even begin to tell about the water damage and recovery needing to happen now. WOW!!
fab shot but pretty crap a suposed first world country like Amercia cannot get the basics like power back on after a few days... you wouldn't experience this in the UK - yes I realise it was a bad storm - but not that bad when you consider what other parts of the world have to go through...
@andycoleborn - I understand your point and there are many people here outraged and still suffering. But this was the biggest (in size) storm ever to hit this part of the US, the most densely populated and most dense in terms of sophisticated infrastructure (not grass huts and shacks here) so its more complicated then most regions. That aside FEMA sucks and always has.
That's quite a chilling shot! It's sobering to think of the size of the area and the number of people who have been affected by the storm. Providing relief must be difficult when you have so many people affected in such a concentrated - and large - area.
An amazing and sobering shot. Thank you for the share.
@michaelelliott It puts it into perspective when you say how many people live in just that area. Having lived in far north Queensland, I looked at that area and thought "wow - I thought there'd be more area damaged" but where we'd get a huge area of damage (thankfully many modern houses were "cyclone proof"), the population affected would be a fraction of this.
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We finally got power back yesterday, and schools opened today after being closed all last week.
As far as power, we kept repeating that we were blessed that that was the worst of it for us. Most times that worked. Some times not so much.
Puts the news we have been hearing into perspective about what and where and how much, of course I'm sure that doesn't even begin to tell about the water damage and recovery needing to happen now. WOW!!
An amazing and sobering shot. Thank you for the share.