#hurricanesandy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hurricanesandy, aggregated by home.social.
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‘I’m going to miss this place’: Aqueduct bids farewell after 132 years as New York City’s racetrack https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/30/aqueduct-racetrack-closing-last-day-horse-racing-photos #HorseRacing #NewYork #UsNews #KathyHochul #Sport #BelmontStakes #BreedersCup #UsSports #KentuckyDerby #HurricaneSandy
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“Auf Halber Höhe” / At half height, halfway up
A marker on a building in Red Hook near the Brooklyn waterfront, commemorating how high the floodwaters rose during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This community still has strong memories of that storm and I fear we may not be ready for the next one.
#photography #streetphotography #hurricane #hurricanesandy #brooklyn #nyc
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Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back?
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This Vulnerable Community Feels Left Behind as New York City Builds Seawalls
The case of Edgemere reflects a wider trend among coastal resiliency efforts currently underway across US cities. -
As New York City builds flood resilience, a Queens neighborhood feels neglected: ‘We are forgotten here’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/new-york-city-queens-flooding-climate-crisis #HurricaneSandy #Climatecrisis #Environment #NewYork #USnews
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"To be over-developed is to hasten decay,
And this is against Tao,
And what is against Tao will soon cease to be." - Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching.#NewYorkCity May Be Sinking Under the Weight of Its #Skyscrapers
A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others.
by Tim Nelson, May 17, 2023
Excerpt: "The scholars first estimated the cumulative weight of New York’s buildings to be 1.68 trillion pounds, and then calculated the downward pressure these buildings exert on the mixture of clay, sand, and slit that make up most of the ground beneath the city’s streets.
"Based on their model, New York experiences a '#subsidence rate' (the technical term for sinking) of about one to two millimeters per year on average, though Lower Manhattan, as well as particular areas of Brooklyn and Queens, show a propensity for greater subsidence risk. As the authors note in their paper, much of lower Manhattan is currently no more than one to two meters above sea level, possibly exacerbating the effects of climate change in turn.
"While one to two millimeters per year may not seem that much, the study’s authors warn that this amount is more than enough to cause major coastal cities serious problems in the future. 'The combination of tectonic and anthropogenic subsidence, #SeaLevelRise, and increasing hurricane intensity imply an accelerating problem along coastal and riverfront areas,' the paper states. 'Repeated exposure of building foundations to salt water can corrode reinforcing steel and chemically weaken concrete, causing structural weakening.'
"As the study’s authors further point out, this level of annual collapse could potentially exacerbate the impact of #ExtremeWeather events like #HurricaneSandy, which saw sea water pour into New York."
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Snow falls on #NorthCarolina's 'forgotten' mountain towns after #HurricaneHelene
Some mountain towns in North Carolina are still in the dark after Hurricane Helene. And now, cold temperatures and snow are coming.
By Jesse Ferrell
Published Oct 15, 2024"Winterlike weather has come early and will leave western North Carolina residents shivering, including thousands still without power nearly three weeks after Hurricane Helene. Tuesday night, light snow fell above 3,000 feet in elevation at Maggie Valley, Waynesville, and at the Beech Mountain, Cataloochee, and Appalachian Mountain ski areas.
"Snow also likely fell at the top of Mount Mitchell Tuesday night. The mountain is still without power, and its webcam and weather station have been offline since Helene hit on Sept. 27.
"Nearly three weeks ago, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and went on to cause record flooding in the southern Appalachians. At least 232 people were killed by the storm. The storm knocked out power to 4.8 million customers. Although most power has been restored, for the last week, the number of homes and businesses still in the dark has remained steady at around 15,000 in three mountain counties in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.US.
"Most of those still without power are in Mitchell County and Yancey County, home to Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, nestled halfway between Asheville and Boone. Each county still has one-third of customers in the dark.
"AccuWeather Regional Expert John Feerick says the first truly cold air of the season will continue to plunge southward through the Appalachians this week. Frost and freeze alerts are in effect for most of the state's western counties.
"Asheville's flooding made most of the headlines, but the mountain town of Boone, in Wautagua County, was left almost completely without power and 'almost unrecognizable' after #HurricaneMilton, one resident told WXII last weekend. Citizens are worried that they will be forgotten.
"WataugaOnline said Monday that a curfew was still in effect for Boone and Blowing Rock overnight, and parts of the county 'have a great deal of road work, power restoration, and debris removal ongoing.'
"Snow after a hurricane is unusual but not rare. Some hurricanes, such as #HurricaneSandy, have even caused snow in the southern Appalachians."
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The Sky Before Sandy - taken at the old Stone Church in Cragsmoor, NY days before Super Storm Sandy pummeled the east coast. It was quite errie weeks before the storm arrived.
Enjoy 25% off all prints today!
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/before-sandy-renata-natale.html
#hurricaneSandy #storms #weather #buyintoart #cragsmoorny #art #Photography #skies #oldstonechurch #MastoArt
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"Have a crank powered radio."
still have the one i bought during the 2012 NYC blackout after #HurricaneSandy.
took this pic at the now gone 116th Street Radio Shack here in Manhattan. El Barrio had electricity while we at Loisaida had none.
i miss Radio Shacks.
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two more:
Fishes Eddy is an institution here in NYC because it is one of the few places that have outlived Bloomberg's real estate depredation of small businesses.
they had people text them what the thought about #HurricaneSandy and they posted them on their windows after renaming their their social media wall.
it's these little things that make me love New York City so much
the end.
for now...
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i can't remember if it was that same night or a few days later but we went from #HurricaneSandy to #2012NYCBlackout in what felt like a heartbeat. so for however long that was, i had to get up the kids, give them breakfast and walk down 12 flights of stairs to then take a bus somewhere out of downtown Manhattan until before nightfall whilst looking for supplies we could shelp 12 flights of stairs. we became the go to folks for supplies, even phone calls cuz i still had a landline
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2012 #HurricaneSandy
and here's the part i wanted to show. we were all standing there looking at the water and then, BOOM! the biggest surge of water i have ever seen in my life. so i high-tailed it out of there.
you see those pilons on the 2nd photo? the water usually touches them about 6-7 from the walkway. many of those pilons ended up on the FDR Drive. one ended up impaling 3 cars on my apart complex and it sat there, mocking us all, until the city could get special machinery to move it
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2012 #HurricaneSandy
i actually live 2 blocks away from the ConEdison that blew out and caused the #2012NYCBlackout
these pics, ironically, were BEFORE the black out as i was heading to the East River to see how high the tide was.
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2012 #HurricaneSandy
none of these stores exist anymore between avenues A & B. they were severely damaged by the floods and the landlords let the buildings to rot, hoping for a Wall Street firm or an REIT passing as a hospital or university would buy them out. Mt Sinai Hospital was one of winners.
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2012 #HurricaneSandy
as i heard that the Hurricane was approaching, i did what i would do as a wee girl in Puerto Rico: i'd take one last look at everything as i knew it then because after #HuracanEloisa i knew everything could change at the drop of a hat.
i live on East 14th, so i headed to the East River...
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AMENDED!
i survived 2012 #HurricaneSandy and the subsequent blackoutand guess what?
found some of my #HurricaneSandy #2012NYCBlackout and #OccupySandy photos. they're potatoey quality but here we go!
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The City: "Hurricane Sandy Devastate Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to the Area Since?" #climate #disasters #disasterprep #hurricanes #HurricaneSandy https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/10/27/23424718/hurricane-sandy-coney-island-climate-change-development
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Remember the sky before Sandy, a massive hurricane that hit us in the northeast. I think it rained for weeks beforehand. I was up at the old stone church in Cragsmoor, NY taking that in. We got struck just a couple of days later.
It's Here: https://pixels.com/featured/before-sandy-renata-natale.html
#AYearForArt #art #cragsmoorny #MastoArt #hurricanesandy #storms #weather #sky #mood #cross #dramatic #landscape
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Ten years ago today, we were still dealing with the aftermath of #hurricanesandy https://www.lisaclarke.net/2012/11/05/i-miss-electricity/ We had uprooted trees and ten days without power.
Meanwhile today I am enjoying a lazy morning sipping coffee in my PJs in a cozy warm house. I feel lucky and grateful :blobcoffee:
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Somehow I feel myself connected with the #Ida flash flooding in New York City and surroundings last night. The reason is that in 2012 I was in Manhattan (Chelsea), exactly during #HurricaneSandy.
This experience made a lot of impact on me. I walked down the city center during the hurricane (don't ask 🙄) and I made a few great photo's. One of it is my signature header image / avatar background. I think it shows perfectly the collision between #capitalism and the #climateCrisis. And I like the colours.
The next day I went to Wall St. and a lot of buildings were flooded. That made my day! 😉
More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_in_New_York