robklurfield
eclipse
Richard and Lynn, thanks.
It is not without some measure of guilt that I post these images of storm destruction. Those houses belong to families we know. We were lucky. I cannot explain other than that our house is farther from the water, why we were lucky and spared the worst. (Well, I could explain a little: the wealthier folks could buy or build closer to the shore, get better views and encounter more danger.) Some of those homes were built for a pittance many years ago by middle class families as a summer getaway and have stayed in those same families for two, three, four and even five or six decades now. We were arrivistes; we rented for ten years a couple of communities south of where we are now and bought a place in 1999. Only 24 years makes us newcomers.
I've got mixed feelings about whether rebuilding is right (emotionally it is; environmentally/economically, probably not wise).
As the days have passed since I shot those images, they have come to feel more staggering to me (it's only since Sunday that we were allowed to make our first visit). At first, it was utterly surreal.
It is not without some measure of guilt that I post these images of storm destruction. Those houses belong to families we know. We were lucky. I cannot explain other than that our house is farther from the water, why we were lucky and spared the worst. (Well, I could explain a little: the wealthier folks could buy or build closer to the shore, get better views and encounter more danger.) Some of those homes were built for a pittance many years ago by middle class families as a summer getaway and have stayed in those same families for two, three, four and even five or six decades now. We were arrivistes; we rented for ten years a couple of communities south of where we are now and bought a place in 1999. Only 24 years makes us newcomers.
I've got mixed feelings about whether rebuilding is right (emotionally it is; environmentally/economically, probably not wise).
As the days have passed since I shot those images, they have come to feel more staggering to me (it's only since Sunday that we were allowed to make our first visit). At first, it was utterly surreal.
