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As some of you may know, I work for the city here in New York. As soon as the hurricane hit, we were put on 12 hour shifts to help with whatever. After the storm, we were sent to heavily damaged areas such as Staten Island, Far Rockaway and Breezy Point to remove debris and start the clean up process. Still to this day, I'm in awe at what I've seen.
Upon arriving at Breezy Point that Wednesday, me and my partner drove around snapping some photos before we started working. Our instructions were to start at any street and clean up the piles of debris in front of each house. As we arrived at our first stop, the pile of debris wasn't normal storm debris. The piles consisted of furniture, televisions, clothing, photo albums, expensive Calphalon kitchenware, autographed sports memorabilia, kids toys.....I could go on. We were both just staring at this pile letting reality hit us. Needless to say, we didn't take any more pictures to this day.
At some stops, the homeowners would come out and help us a bit. Sometimes they grab an item to throw in but before they do, tears start forming and then begin to tell us what the item is, what it was for, when it was purchased. One time, this lady was reallly doing a good job tossing shit in. She knew it had to be done and became one of us for 30 minutes. Then she stumbled upon a photo album. She lost it. She sat down and started flipping through the water damaged pictures trying to decipher the images. We sat down next to her until she finished the album.
The past two weeks have been like this filled with stories similar to that one. Humbling experience to say the least.
As I was telling Franco via PM, this is the first 8 hour day I had since the storm and decided to post these pics.
Yes that's an Audi R8 fully damaged. The inside is filled with sand, twigs and other shit. This car supposedly got carried away from 3 blocks away and deposited here in the middle of the street.
We already went through this block twice and look at the piles forming on the right
Upon arriving at Breezy Point that Wednesday, me and my partner drove around snapping some photos before we started working. Our instructions were to start at any street and clean up the piles of debris in front of each house. As we arrived at our first stop, the pile of debris wasn't normal storm debris. The piles consisted of furniture, televisions, clothing, photo albums, expensive Calphalon kitchenware, autographed sports memorabilia, kids toys.....I could go on. We were both just staring at this pile letting reality hit us. Needless to say, we didn't take any more pictures to this day.
At some stops, the homeowners would come out and help us a bit. Sometimes they grab an item to throw in but before they do, tears start forming and then begin to tell us what the item is, what it was for, when it was purchased. One time, this lady was reallly doing a good job tossing shit in. She knew it had to be done and became one of us for 30 minutes. Then she stumbled upon a photo album. She lost it. She sat down and started flipping through the water damaged pictures trying to decipher the images. We sat down next to her until she finished the album.
The past two weeks have been like this filled with stories similar to that one. Humbling experience to say the least.
As I was telling Franco via PM, this is the first 8 hour day I had since the storm and decided to post these pics.
Yes that's an Audi R8 fully damaged. The inside is filled with sand, twigs and other shit. This car supposedly got carried away from 3 blocks away and deposited here in the middle of the street.
We already went through this block twice and look at the piles forming on the right
