Tornado! http://www.alansondheim.org/tornado2.jpg https://youtu.be/YFFncU3n77w VIDEO http://www.alansondheim.org/windshear.jpg spectrum of windshear "Original in HD. There were tornado warnings in Brooklyn around 5 this afternoon - rotating cells were seen on radar. So it hit around 5:20 and I went outside and shot this two minutes at the height of it. We went out tonight as well - there are trees and branches down all over the place as well as crushed cars and stuff like skylights and ventilators that blew off rooftops. The storm lasted maybe three minutes. As far as I know we have no damage, but the place across the street had aluminum siding torn off (you can see this in the video). We still have to go onto our roof and check it out. I have a lot of very clear stills as well, but this conveys what it felt like. The camera was completely soaked but luckily still works!" -- That was written then, this is now. I forget the year. The video is reworked here. It includes previous footage of a wedding and carpet as well. It was DV tape, high for the time. I had heard a very small tornado had crossed Staten Island and was headed down 4th-5th Avenue in Brooklyn. I grabbed the camera and went outside. Everything was blowing everywhere. Parts of roofs and signs were torn loose. Trees were down and cars were destroyed. I held on to the bus stop, rounded the corner, and ran into the storm. You couldn't see the funnel itself; it was over us, but you could hear the sheer and feel the sudden change in pressure. I never showed the proper footage; this is it, very short - I was going to be blown away and the camera destroyed if I stayed out longer. It was magnificent. I've been in a few severe storms before and after, but this was the best because it came through so fast, so dense. I'm speaking to someone saying the storm is coming; I didn't realize it had already passed. I love New York. I love the juxtapositions of worlds. Anyone out there was _taken over entirely._ What more could you ask for? One could write endlessly about that, the transparency and ghost-like quality of the body under untoward circumstances; writing doesn't do anything justice, the body disappearing into camera and mouth, perhaps fingers and legs, everything _distant signals from the world to a dissipated consciousness._ I long for this! I've been out in bad hurricanes, blown over, in swarms of wind and water; my powerlessness expands to fill the dark and grayed universe of violent rain, hail and wind; I know, intimately, that we are all always blown away, always on the verge of vanishing, to space and time, to ourselves, to what remains of our ability to speak, say, think, cry, move, bear witness as bare witness, of our ability to disappear, once, finally, ourselves, everyone, everything, space and time, neutrino. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
