Strength Through Beauty

Check out this Hudson Valley Times article by Paul Smart featuring Tanya Marcuse, Charise Isis and myself at the Dorsky Museum.

Hurricane Irene Photos - my neighborhood in Phoenicia, NY

Here are some photos I took today of my neighborhood.  It doesn't look quite the same as it did a few days ago....

backyard and neighbor's car

my pool with mud

 

 

My muddy backyard

My backyard from a few weeks ago (ironically showing Laura, whom we are now staying with since being displaced)

mud

before the mud...

The Esopus around the corner from me - it looks different than it did last week...

.... this is how it looked on November 28, 2010

My next door neighbor's foundation is mostly gone...

...you can see the basement from the backyard.

My other next door neighbor's front yard.

My neighbors across the street got it pretty bad too....

...their pool looks much worse than mine.

 This is gonna take awhile to clean up - thankfully nothing that can't be fixed, but the Catskills have been permanently changed - physically and psychologically.

Hurricane Irene videos - Phoenicia and surrounding Catskills towns

Some Youtube videos I found of hurricane Irene's devastation to Phoenicia and nearby:

• This one has bad music, but a good range of footage showing before, during and after of areas near my house and in nearby Mt. Tremper and Boiceville:

• Here's a series from within the town of Phoenicia during the actual storm - these are all shot within few hundred feet from my house:

• And some aftermath videos:

• As bad as Phoenicia and the nearby towns were hit, there were some worse hit areas not too far away, such as the YMCA camp in Frost Valley, which is about 20-30 minutes away from me (sorry about the bad music, and only still images, but you get the picture:

• And of course there was Margaretville, Tannersville and Wyndham - all within 30-45 minutes of my home - they really got hammered: