While I’ve taken it as my solemn duty to remember the many who’s lives were entirely destroyed/kinda inconvenienced as a result of #TucsonBlizzard 2013, this time lapse video is probably the coolest thing to have come from one of the many Tucsonans who survived, (henceforth known as The Orphans of Sonoran Superstorm Sofia).
Great work out there, fellow Orphan. May we Never Forget.
[h/t: @cactiman]
This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2013.
Apparently, mindless Old Pueblo snowstorm youtube videos have replaced the old standard transfixing youtube cat videos, for a week or so, so gaga, so fascinated by e-novelty beergut-scratching Americans have become thanks to Dan Gibson, David Mendez, Wick Communications and so many other lazy media powerhouses.
Why bother reporting on the plight of the homeless in this weather, or the secret cave dwellers in the Catalinas (how are they doing, how do they adjust? Oh, there’s a story…) when the primary worry is might maybe having to go to the icky Panda Express in, in the…, in the, OMG! in the the snow?
yep, yep, yep…
Ignore the disparaging comment. That is a very interesting and well executed time lapse series, and a new perspective from what we are used to. Good work by the photographer.
Just one thing: if you look up “blizzard,” you will discover that this storm was not. No high winds. People who have lived in cold climates laugh when we call this a blizzard.
@ R. E. Peary
Well, you for one didn’t ignore Red Star’s “disparaging comment.”
It’s pretty much up to the Wick brothers whether they want to lazily channel youtube commodities (no matter how much they and the emerging prowess, emerging for what, thirty years now, of an amateur cam operator, excites you, R. E. Peary ) or do some “git up and go for it” expensive local journalism…
Of course, so much easier to fret Panda Express…
I am starting to see the upside of losing anonymity on the Internet. A person tends to be so much more polite when his butt is available to back up the checks his mouth writes.
Red Star, as has been noted before, you’re not an assignments editor, and (shockingly!) the personal Twitter accounts of our staff aren’t inextricably tied to what we’re doing here at TucsonWeekly.com.
If you want to pursue those stories, go right ahead. No one’s stopping you.
@ R. E. Peary: I think we are all aware that it was not a blizzard. You seem to have taken the humorous approach to Tucson Weather, quite literally. I am going to invent the code for a sarcasm font, and become a billionaire with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Anderson