11 Responses to ** Flooding reflections **

1. 1. Katie_Scarlett | September 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am

   Those night shots are really nice. You have talented readers.

2. 2. jscirish27 | September 7th, 2008 at 10:13 am

   Katie, did you take those shots?

3. 3. truth1 | September 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am

   Great snapshots of the flooded conditions around our recent newer tax paying developments. The water will eventually go down the drain, and in view of Hoboken’s current financial woes, the tax revenues have as well.

4. 4. Katie_Scarlett | September 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am

   jscirish27 wrote:

   Katie, did you take those shots?

   No. I took a night shot that’s posted elsewhere and isn’t nearly as good. I really was genuinely impressed by these. After trying (unsuccessfully) to take a good shot, I am doubly impressed with anyone else who can.

   [ordinarily you’d be on the right track though, no one loves to compliment me more than me!!! ]

5. 5. Yankgrl | September 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am

   Great shots. Does anyone know if the area around the shoprite is still under water?

6. 6. jscirish27 | September 7th, 2008 at 11:06 am

   KS-How’s that torn rotator cuff coming along?

7. 7. HHoney | September 7th, 2008 at 11:13 am

   Great shots!

   Funny how that happens, even with a catch-basin, when large developments are built over a drained (but not redirected) river. Hmmmmmm. I wonder where our City “planners” thought all that water from Weehawken, Union City and Jersey City was going to go when they took the river away.

   Oh! I get it! That’s why our roads are considered “open space” in the density calculations; because the old river has been redirected to the “open spaces” around town.

   Silly me.

8. 8. panicmule | September 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am

   Yankgrl wrote:

   Great shots.

   Does anyone know if the area around the shoprite is still under water?

   It’s dry - woke up this morning around 6am, looked out the window and it was back to normal, went for a run and by the time I got back the city was finishing it’s clean up. Would never know it rained.

9. 9. Yankgrl | September 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

   panicmule wrote:

   Yankgrl wrote:

   Great shots.

   Does anyone know if the area around the shoprite is still under water?

   It’s dry - woke up this morning around 6am, looked out the window and it was back to normal, went for a run and by the time I got back the city was finishing it’s clean up. Would never know it rained.

   THANKS! Didn’t want to swim my way to go food shopping.

10. 10. hobojoe | September 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Thanks for the nice comments. I took these to continue my series of the flooding in this area over the last few years. Yes, you’d think I’d have better things to do. I have a bunch I took when they were building that condo development on the corner - the excavator is in water above it’s tracks (i.e. several feet deep). Did they actually expect anything different to happen once they built that building? I couldn’t get close enough to see if that glassed-in retail space on the corner was an aquarium on the inside.

    Katie - basic technique is long exposures. With a long enough exposure, you can make it look like daylight in the middle of the night. Sometimes actually ends looking kind of freaky. If you really want to learn more, myself or other photo-inclined people on here I’m sure would be glad to offer pointers.

    Biggest problem I had was rain on the lens. I have a few more which would have been really nice - except for a nice halo where there was water on the lens (like the first shot)

    Also, the water was pretty much gone by sunrise - but the sewage residue remained all over. I think we can use a good rain to wash it all away

11. 11. plaintruthiness | September 7th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    panicmule wrote:

    Yankgrl wrote:

    Great shots.

    Does anyone know if the area around the shoprite is still under water?

    It’s dry - woke up this morning around 6am, looked out the window and it was back to normal, went for a run and by the time I got back the city was finishing it’s clean up. Would never know it rained.

    Did the city fill in the potholes and road ditches while they were busy cleaning up?

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