Flooding in Bennington, VT sends car down rushing river, August 28, 2011. (by YouTube user mobilady)
As the East Coast braces for Hurricane Irene, New York City prepares to shut down the biggest public transportation system on the continent - after noon today, officials have said that all public transportation in the city will be offline.
The art: Winslow Homer, Hurricane, Bahamas, 1898.
The news: Hurricane Irene is on the way.
The source: Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An after-the-hurricane Homer watercolor is at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Note: Before there was The Weather Channel, there was art. Throughout the day 3rd of May will post examples of artists thrilling to big, bad, threatening storms.
A few joggers brave the wet weather prior to Hurricane Irene on the Belt Parkway Promenade, near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Photo taken from 91st street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
