Hurricane Sandy: Amazing Gowanus Flooding Photos

Sackett St yesterday afternoon: 

Bayside Fuel Depot flood with strong odor of floating gasoline in air.

Last night: at Douglass and Bond

First and Bond Street flooded intersection at 8:20 PM last night

Union St and Bond Street flooded intersection

Second and Bond Street flooded intersection

Second and Bond Street flooded intersection with gasoline and varnish left by flood

Second and Bond Street flooded intersection with fire wood left by flood receding

Surveying the damage this morning. Oil sheen and flooding on Second St.

Storm aftermath. Burnt out bus on President St

Damaged fence at Union and Bond Streets

Damaged insulation on Sackett St

Firewood on First Street and Bond Street

Flood line on 2nd and Bond Street

Pumps at work on Bond

Oil and stranded boat at Canal and President

Stranded house boat at President Street

 Oil sheen on Gowanus Canal

Oil saturation on Sackett St

Overturned container on President Street

Lost bracelet on 4th and Bond

(photos courtesy of Eymund Diegel)

These amazing photos chronicling the flooding and the flooding aftermath in the Gowanus area as a result of Hurricane Sandy were taken by Eymund Diegel.  Thank you very much for sharing the images, Eymund.

No doubt this was the storm of the century.  Scientists have been warning us about this eventuality for a very long time.

Here is a link to an older post that I wrote after I joined a walking tour of the Gowanus Canal with climate change expert Klaus Jacob of Columbia University and with Paul Reale of The Climate Reality Project,which was founded by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States.

Please take the time to read it here:

Planning For Climate Change In The Gowanus Watershed

Everything they predicted came true yesterday.