lil latvian

Powell’s books find

nevver:

Surf’s up

nevver:

Scandinavia

Woowoo according to this, Latvia is Scandinavia!

nevver:

Peanuts

nevver:

Darkness

imwithkanye:

climateadaptation:

List of webcams to witness the doom of Hurricane Sandy.

New York City

• Coney Island
• Statue of Liberty
• New York Harbor
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Downtown Manhattan
• Wall Street Bull
• Ground Zero
• Chelsea
• USS Intrepid
• Midtown West
• Empire State Building, 55th floor
• Times Square
• Bryant Park
• Columbus Circle
• 79th Street Boat Basin
• Co-Op City in the Bronx
• NYC traffic cameras

Long Island

• Southampton
• Shinnecock Inlet
• Lincoln
• Gilgo Beach

Jersey Shore

• Cape May
• Cape May
• Point Pleasant Beach
• Seaside Heights
• Wildwood
• New Jersey traffic cameras

Virginia Beach

• Waterman’s Boardwalk
• Hampton Inn Oceanfront North

Via

Totally watching the hurricane on the Statue of Liberty Torch Cam.

amyohconnor:

amyohconnor-blog:

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible. Every time the residents brush their teeth, millions of gallons of water must be drawn from the Catskills and the hills of Westchester. When a young man in Manhattan writes a letter to his girl in Brooklyn, the love message gets blown to her through a pneumatic tube — pfft — just like that. The subterranean system of telephone cables, power lines, steam pipes, gas mains and sewer pipes is reason enough to abandon the island to the gods and the weevils.

Every time an incision is made in the pavement, the noisy surgeons expose ganglia that are tangled beyond belief. By rights New York should have destroyed itself long ago, from panic or fire or rioting or failure of some vital supply line in its circulatory system or from some deep labyrinthine short circuit.

Long ago the city should have experienced an insolible traffic snarl at some impossible bottleneck. It should have perished of hunger when food lines failed for a few days. It should have been wiped out by a plague starting in its slums or carried in by ships’ rats. It should have been overhelmed by the sea that licks at it on every side. The workers in its myriad Cells should have succumbed to nerves, from the fearful pall of smoke — fog that drifts over every days from Jersey, blotting out all light at noon and leaving the high offices suspended, men groping and depressed, and the sense of world’s end. It should have been touched in the head by the August heat and gone off its rocker.

• E.B. White, Here is New York