Practicing piano in North Carolina during hurricane Irene ( Lisitsa ) [ValentinaLisitsa]

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This is actually the very first -- and admittedly lame ( lol ) attempt to do a music video with more than hands and face ( not counting an infamous candelabra that made its debut in Schwanengesang ).
Here the candelabra is not for decorative purposes only J It serves as and old-fashioned but reliable source of light -- the only solace when there is no electricity, water, phone , internet , TV , air conditioning -- all modern conveniences we take for granted....
The setting and time is: late August , at home -- watching hurricane Irene make its destructive way through my neighborhood.
I had enough common sense to send the family away into evacuation -- westwards, to Durham . I decided to stay back with my animal family and do some practice as well -- in peace and quiet 🙂 I was getting ready to go and record my "Liszt project" for an LP. The next three days turned out to be very interesting ....If you are interested in juicy details of my hurricane days -- read them on Twitter ( Vallisitsa) , here I will just sum up what's on video. Otherwise an excavator is not exactly a visual image for Liszt Ballade 🙂
The ocean you see there is not an ocean , it is our darling lazy and peaceful Neuse river -- same mirror-smooth river you see at the end of the video with a sunrise. We are about 20 minutes drive to the ocean and all this water was just blown inland from the sea . it kept rising so quickly that despite being on a high bluff I was seriously thinking what to do if it gets to the house. Tidal waves are unpleasant and generally deadly things. It was silly of me -- never do it at home , OK ?
We lost a good dozen of majestic ancient trees , but and old oak you see in video , being toppled by 25 ton excavator ( that almost tipples over under the weight of a tree ) was the real danger . I didn't even know it until the storm was over. The tree was completely torn off its roots and hanging over the house , ready to crash everything underneath. The only thing that saved me and a house was a younger oak that held the old-timer in its branches long enough for tree crew to arrive ( three days later ). I am buying a bag of the most delicious fertilizer for that young oak 🙂
The butterflies? You should have seen all the hungry and stressed critters coming out in search of food after the storm was over. All the flowers hundreds of miles around were gone , trees lost most of their leaves , standing bare like in a late fall -- countless butterflies and hummingbirds started coming to our backyard to feed on few puny wildflowers that survived. Later on I had to improvise by making fake flowers from craft foam and soaking them in sugar syrup to keep with a demand 🙂 We had so many orphaned baby birds showing up on the porch , desperate to find some food...
Life will eventually get back to normal, we will have a new roof , the flowers will be replanted and new trees grow , the pianos will dry out and be in tune again 🙂
It was an amazing and frightening experience.