01 March 2010

Snow storm of 2010… The aftermath

The snow storm has come and gone but it’s devastation continues to linger. Amongst the piles of plowed snow you will find shattered remains. To see them, you would think they cry out as one hundred thousand voices, “Why have you forsaken us?” These, my friends, are the cries of the shopping carts. While the shopping centers around the region closed and shoppers and store workers were travelling home, they were left to weather the elements of the largest snow storm in decades. To many they were just the forgotten shopping carts left outside. To them it was… The holocaust. Here I have attempted to capture the horror and suffering imposed to the innocents. Each photo will reveal a similar but different story. They are all unique yet they are bound together by the same unfathomable terrible fate. You can see the evidence of being violently shoved into each other, or into concrete and steel structures, by the large snow plows. The twisted and broken frames seem to emanate a sense of dejection. No one I asked seemed to be bothered by any of this. It is an atrocity! It is my duty as a blogger to reveal this untold anguish to the world. The only thing that we can do is remember them... to honor them; for they are the true heroes of 2010. In life they carried our groceries... In death they carry our hearts.