Hurricane Sandy has devastated much of New York, leaving many homeless. Now, in a series of amazing photos, 18 dunes made up of purely sand collected from the Rockaways in Queens. The photos are of the dunes in the parking lot of Jacob Riis Park and look like pyramids.
Photographer Stéphane Missier aka Charles Le Brigand took the photos. He said on his website, "The dunes are made out of sifted sand from the surrounding area, by workers who shoveled the sand from the streets after Hurricane Sandy's passage. Polished by the cold winter wind, these artificial cones formed an eerie lunar landscape."
The Daily Mail reported that the dunes are 30 feet tall and photographed in two days. Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Rockaways and the entire area was in a mandatory evacuation zone. After the storm, floods made the area not accessible to fire crews for many hours after the devastation.
The area was one of the most flooded by Sandy and to date some residents are still living without power, food or heat. "The presence of all kinds of construction and hauling trucks on the site as well as conveyor belts, generators, watch towers, and pole lights, gave me the impression of being on another some kind of a spatial station," said Le Brigand on his website." The wind was pretty strong too and really accentuated that lunar feel. I managed to take a couple of shots before getting kicked out by a courteous Sanitation Police officer."
In New York there were 60 million people that were left without power. 131 people were killed across the country due to the storm.
See the photos of the eerie dunes here.
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