Such chaos! The poor Mercedes driver cannot move his car. How will the UK cope. The car has barely a scratch on it either. Hardly newsworthy damage.
From: BBC NEWS | UK | UK braced for storms and flooding
Posted on Sunday 9th March 2008 in Blog tagged natural-disaster, news, news-humour, pointless, transport, with no comments.
Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]
The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]
Posted on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, future, landfill, natural-disaster, news, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
Google maps now have satellite imagery of New Orleans, taken in the last couple of days, and showing some of the impact of Hurricane Katrina. This can be compared to the standard satellite and road maps.
While seeing the damage caused by the flooding brings home the chaos it is causing to those affected, it [...]
Posted on Saturday 3rd September 2005 in Blog, Engineering tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, Links, mapping, natural-disaster, Photos, with one comment.
Some photos of the recent flooding of the River Ness, through Inverness
The Ness Islands, almost completely underwater
Unfortunately, some properties were also flooded, such as these on Huntley Street
Other flooded properties in Douglas Row were protected by sandbags on top of the existing defences, but this was not enough.
Downstream, at Huntley place, the flooding was worse.
The [...]
Posted on Monday 14th February 2005 in Blog tagged Engineering, flooding, natural-disaster, water, with no comments.
