Wilma in photographs
Sat Oct 29, 2005 09:00 (UTC -5)The topic of Hurricane Wilma may be old hat to some of you who are tired of hearing about it, but imagine us here who got hit by it and now have to see it on the front page of the newspaper every day and on every channel that we can get. I hope this doesn’t bore you.
While the storm was retreating on Monday, I went around with my camera to survey the destruction. I’ve selected eight of the most poignant (I love that word) images to be shown here. Without further ado, here are some of the things I saw.
My side yard. Note the shingles strewn everywhere.
Across the street from my house. That large tree went down and took the grass with it.
Debris blocks a street. Is that a roof, a deck, or the roof of a deck? We couldn’t tell.
Find the car.
My sister and my friend Kevin in the shopping center. “SING 407-6″? We don’t know which store that fragment of a sign came from.
In the same shopping center. Before I took this picture, another man was trying to sweep the sign, which was still in one piece. Apparently they were going to put it back up.
Another street blocked, this one by a single tree.
“Bring it on,” urges this piece of plywood in case you can’t read it. Hurricane Wilma obliged.
Remember when I had to write a Gothic story? Just in time for Halloween, I guess, I’ve posted it among the Other Stuff. It’s called “The Prisoners.”
Read some extremely short synopses of Shakespeare: Shakespeare for Illiterates. Then broaden your literary savvy with Classics for Illiterates.
Maybe someone can set these up for me: making strange sounds from steel wire and aluminum. I don’t get those electronic diagram thingies.
1 comment
#1 by kevin: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:30 (UTC -5)
see, i saved a sign! & a column.