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Time-lapse video of Hurricane Sandy hitting NYC: 2 days into 2 minutes

Xeni Jardin at 3:17 pm Thu, Nov 1, 2012

Two days of extreme Sandy weather condensed into two minutes. Created by SMvideoChan, who told Yahoo News it was shot at Northside Piers Towers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The bridge you see is the Williamsburg Bridge. The time-lapse covers two days of the hurricane's assault on New York, from the early morning of October 29 through Oct. 30. [ Video Link]

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I’d love to see this from more angles. I’d love to see a view of a single street where the shit hit the fan.
BombBlastLightingWaltz

At about 1:06 its starts getting exciting but quickly dampens.
nehpetsE

the tides come in, the tides go out. You can’t explain that!
gamophyte

This is amazing. The police lights when it goes dark looks like coloured sparks. Awesome.