Jan Snow 3
Snow is the norm in January in the sixth boro, and we’ve just had unusual weather. On January 2, I was splitting NY wood wearing a t-shirt in the balmy almost 60 degrees. As you may have guessed, I slipped my noon deadline today because I wanted some evidence of the normal snow accumulation that […]
A to P 5: Whole Lotta Dredging
The “enlargement” of the Panama Canal involved a lot of dredging in Panama, as well as in ports served by the Neopanamax ships: deepening approaches, widening channels, and even eliminating islands in part or whole in Gatun Lake. I put the ” ” there because it’s more accurate to say “creating a third set of […]
Soderman
Here was a related post, Yano, watched by John Watson and me simultaeously and from different vantage points, each of us unbeknownst to the other. Before the snow and cold hit this past week, actually Wednesday Jan 4, I was tipped off about an impending BDD dry dock exit in Bayonne. And when James E. Brown […]
Jan Snow 2
More snow aftermath here. . . .but work goes on . . . like Eastern Welder, great name for a fishing boat, pulling in the harbor’s bounty so that it could be packed away, snow or no snow. Caspian Sea pushes a snow-whitened and perfectly-named John Blanche. Torm Carina, resupplying before heading to sea, now […]
Jan Snow 1
In November the winds brewed up a season that has given people of all boros enough snow to raise the stock value of shovel manufacturers: a crewman shoveling yesterday at the ferry fuel barges. Doubleclick enlarges. It covered everything like the deck of small tanker Patrick Sky, glazing surfaces on tormented Carina here taking on supplies […]
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