Insane Hurricane Sandy Photos...
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shadowkatMy Dad sent me the following photos by email...all are Hurricane Sandy [ETA: Apparently not...according to comments below]:
[ETA: Apparently the more astonishing photos aren't real. So, at lunch, when I saw the email (I can get personal email at work, but can't access my personal blog at work) - I sent an email to my father who had provided me and about 10 other people with the photos via another friend who had sent it to him and about 10 other people :
Me: I heard these were fake and possibly photo-shopped? (included link that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flameraven kindly supplied below.)
Dad: Interesting.
(For a writer? My father, who is 77 this month, is a man of few words. Also what is it with people over the age of 60 and chain email's that have urban legends and hoaxes attached? These things appear to cling to my parents' generation like barnacles. I've debunked several - but got taken by this one.)
I will state - that several of them fit the experience, which is why I thought they were real. Although I should have figured out that photos taken at daylight - weren't, since the storm really didn't hit us until almost 9 that night.
While the McDonald's Photo is an installation art piece - this did happen in NYC. Apartments and businesses had two-four feet of water, and DUMB (the area below the Brooklyn Bridge which has many art studios, galleries, restaurants, book stores, etc - was also under 2 - 3 feet of water. The ocean did come in. But it happened at night - so bit hard to take photos, I suspect. And I doubt sharks came in, although Fire Island had some interesting wild life, and there were a few seals.
So photo-shopped or not? They do a decent job of conveying the severity of the storm. I'll give it that.]
[ETA: Apparently the more astonishing photos aren't real. So, at lunch, when I saw the email (I can get personal email at work, but can't access my personal blog at work) - I sent an email to my father who had provided me and about 10 other people with the photos via another friend who had sent it to him and about 10 other people :
Me: I heard these were fake and possibly photo-shopped? (included link that
flameraven kindly supplied below.)Dad: Interesting.
(For a writer? My father, who is 77 this month, is a man of few words. Also what is it with people over the age of 60 and chain email's that have urban legends and hoaxes attached? These things appear to cling to my parents' generation like barnacles. I've debunked several - but got taken by this one.)
I will state - that several of them fit the experience, which is why I thought they were real. Although I should have figured out that photos taken at daylight - weren't, since the storm really didn't hit us until almost 9 that night.
While the McDonald's Photo is an installation art piece - this did happen in NYC. Apartments and businesses had two-four feet of water, and DUMB (the area below the Brooklyn Bridge which has many art studios, galleries, restaurants, book stores, etc - was also under 2 - 3 feet of water. The ocean did come in. But it happened at night - so bit hard to take photos, I suspect. And I doubt sharks came in, although Fire Island had some interesting wild life, and there were a few seals.
So photo-shopped or not? They do a decent job of conveying the severity of the storm. I'll give it that.]
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Date: 2012-12-11 02:25 am (UTC)Amazing photos, these hit home in a way no news cast could. I live on the other side of the world and until I saw these, Hurricane Sandi and New Yorks trauma barely registered.
Thanks for posting these, it made me stop and think.
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Date: 2012-12-11 10:21 pm (UTC)Oh well, they did convey what we experienced at any rate.
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Date: 2012-12-12 08:42 am (UTC)Smartass kids who live on line, gotta love em. I still think they were pretty impressive though.
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Date: 2012-12-11 02:40 am (UTC)http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/fake-hurricane-sandy-photos/
http://theweek.com/article/index/235578/10-fake-photos-of-hurricane-sandy
EDIT: That second one might be Sandy. It's not showing up on any of the "this is a hoax" sites I've seen at least. The rest are either Photoshop jobs, art installations (the McDonald's) or actual pictures taken from different storms.
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Date: 2012-12-11 10:24 pm (UTC)It is worth noting that businesses in DUMB, Brooklyn, Red Hook, and in Battery City and Lower East Village and Chelsea...did experience what was shown in the McDonald's photo...but no one took a picture of it.
And the photos do convey what we experienced. Which may be why I didn't question them - although considering the bulk of the storm hit when it was dark and at night, and the power went out...I should have dismissed the one's with any light.
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Date: 2012-12-12 02:01 am (UTC)I do photo-manip and graphic design for a living, though, so I tend to look at any super-dramatic image VERY carefully. Of course, if photoshopped images weren't so compelling, they wouldn't be used in basically everything. (And I could be wrong; I admittedly have only the vaguest idea of where the Statue of Liberty is in relation to the city.)
Sandy was definitely a terrifying storm, though, photoshopped images or not. I've heard the Northeast is a pretty nice place to live... but between Irene and Sandy, I'm starting to think I'm totally fine with staying in the Midwest and keeping a nice 4 or 5-state buffer between me and the ocean. I'll take the occasional tornado over a hurricane any day. D:
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Date: 2012-12-12 02:42 am (UTC)Well considering we've only really had one or two hurricanes in a 180 years that was of this magnitude or did any damage. Plus you can live in areas far from the ocean (I'm not that far and more or less safe and relatively undamaged). While the midwest averages about five to six tornadoes a year...on average. And getting worse. Heck look at last year.
I came from Kansas City and lived in Lawrence, Kansas...I prefer the Northeast. Lived here 16 years, hadn't experienced a hurricane until last two years...and the city dealt with it well considering. As long as you don't live on the beach, near the seashore or in lower Manhattan, lower Brooklyn, etc - you are fine. My parents have lived on Hilton Head Island for 14 years and never experienced hurricane on that island, while my Mom experienced horrible tornadoes in Texas and Kansas and Missour.
No where is safe. Weather is everywhere.
Whereas my first thought on seeing that first pic with the storm behind the Statue of Liberty was "wait, wasn't the storm moving in the opposite direction?" If it rolled in from the sea, the storm would have been in front of the statue, not behind.
The Statue of Liberty is in the middle of the NY Harbor, sort of between Staten Island and Governor Island, on Ellis Island.
The hurricane actually made ground-fall in NJ, south west of the city, so it could have come from that direction. It sort of swooped in, so that picture is sort of possible..
I'm admittedly not great at directions thought - I flip photographic images in my head (dyslexic) - it's like mirrors. I flip it. So left becomes right, and right becomes left.
Hard to explain.
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Date: 2012-12-11 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-11 10:19 pm (UTC)Yet, oddly enough still does convey what we experienced.
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Date: 2012-12-11 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-11 10:18 pm (UTC)My Dad sent them, thinking they were real, having received them from a friend who told him they were real.
Will state that fake or not they did such a good job of conveying the experience that I believed them. LOL!
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Date: 2012-12-11 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-11 04:45 pm (UTC)Sent shivers down all my spines. Terrifying and yet majestic. Could have been so much worse...
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Date: 2012-12-11 10:19 pm (UTC)