Yesterday's weather was wonderfully windy. We're pretty high up so the wind howled all Friday night through Saturday. We woke up today and it is clear and sunny. It was also about 65 so surprisingly warm. I was in bed with a cold but my husband suggested that we drive to Coney Island. He always knows when I should probably get up and do something and suggests and activity that is the exact right speed.
We grabbed the camera, our rain gear and headed out. By that point is was really windy and rainy but there were people out, mostly people like us just out checking it out but there were some groups of tourists! The water was really rough and the sand was snaking its way along the boardwalk beginning to form dunes. We were pretty quickly soaked and covered in a fine layer of sand. We also snapped a bunch of shots but given the rain we didn't want to get the D70 too wet.
While the visual was great it was the sound of Coney Island in a storm that was the most interesting. There was a pervasive, eerie howl of the wind through the cyclone and wonder wheel and a clacking of old metal signs beginning to tear loose. The wind was so strong we had a hard time walking and I began to worry a bit about those old metal signs flying through the air.
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