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Priority 5 of the Hyogo Framework for Action states that at times of disaster, impacts and losses can be substantially reduced if authorities, individuals and communities in hazard-prone areas are well prepared and ready to act. Walmart associates meet in the Emergency Operations Center to prepare stores and clubs for Hurricane Sandy.
Photo credit: Walmart
in the car on the way to liverpool, where we took the plane to nice. we were so worried if we would make it there because of the snow. we should have been worried about the flight back instead, which was a disaster. stupid snow.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today stated that for the first time in history the world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets and private property to extreme disaster events.
Read more: www.unisdr.org/archive/31685
Photos from Portland's innagural Disaster Relief Trials.
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Photos from Luís Carvalho of the Civil Protection Municipal Service, Amadora Municipality, Portugal
Some moments from the “VII Conference International Day for Disaster Reduction”, in Amadora (Portugal).
This initiative was a fantastic opportunity to discuss the role of the women and girls in the disaster risk reduction process and promote the spirit of resilience with several workshops about climate change, rescue procedures and risk and disaster prevention.
More information on the International Day for Disaster Reduction can be found at:
GG-1 4876 -- a 1939 product of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Shops -- heads south after leaving Elizabeth, New Jersey. Elizabeth's famous speed-restricted S-curve lies just ahead.
4876 is one of the most famous GG-1s because in 1953 it crashed through the floor of Washington's Union Station. The incident, which became known as the "Wreck of the Federal Express," was caused by malfunctioning braking equipment in the train. Miraculously, there were no fatalities.
After the wreck, 4876 was simply cut up into pieces by PRR engineers, rebuilt, and returned to service. She served the Pennsylvania, Penn Central, Amtrak, and New Jersey Transit for many years afterward and was among a handful of GG-1s that ended the GG-1's reign in 1983, faithfully delivering passengers to and from Penn Station and South Amboy. This photo was taken in the Spring of 1983 -- a few months before the end.
I was just playing around in Photoshop and thought this looked kind of like a cool disaster scene....let me know what you think
Volunteer Beaux Fisher has devoted many hours to flood relief in Lafayette, La. She is a Girl Scout and member of First United Methodist Church in Lafayette. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
cake disaster! but `nothing that heaps of frosting couldn´t disguise.The candles decided to fall over just as I took the photo.
My ever-reliable cake recipe decided to stick to a silicon cake form and wouldn´t come out without splitting in half, the first batch of frosting was a disaster, the second was fine, the candles were falling over...
But birthday cake and icecream always works!
Section along the Mafeking heading.
This was judged to be the source of the explosion possibly by a spark caused by a signalling joint box.
Photos from Portland's innagural Disaster Relief Trials.
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Auchenharvie Mine Disaster
Auchenharvie Stevenston/Saltcoats Ayrshire 2nd. August, 1895.
The colliery was the property of the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company. Limited with Mr. R. Main as agent and Mr. John Marshall as the manager. There were two shafts at the colliery Nos. I and 4 which were sunk to the Main Coal, No. 1 at 75 fathoms and No.4 at 73 fathoms. The rise workings extended for 600 yards to the north of the No.4 Pit. They were reached by two self-acting inclines or 'cousies'. The first of these extended form the to pit bottom for about 230 yards at an inclination of one in six and the second, 330 yards at an inclination of one in nine. The second was made in the strata above the coal with twelve feet of solid strata between it and the waste workings underneath. The dook which led to the dip workings extended to the south of the shaft for about 750 yards and dipped at one in six in the upper part and one in eight in the lower part. The colliery was bounded on the east side by a well known whin dyke or 'gaw' called the Capon Graig Gaw which formed the boundary between the Auchenharvie Colliery and the abandoned workings of the Stevenson Colliery. This 'gaw' was supposed never to have been cut from either side and the mineral tenants on both sides were prohibited by their leases from penetrating it, even so there was serious outburst of water from the old workings which claimed the lives of nine men.
At about 3 p.m. on the 2nd. August an outburst of water suddenly took place in the working place of a miner, William Jackson, who, with his two sons, worked in the extreme rise of the pit. It rushed in with great velocity and force down the drawing roads and the inclines to the shaft and from there down the dook. All the people employed in the rise workings succeeded in escaping down the cousies to the No.4 Pit or by another rout to the No. I Pit with the exception of five, One boy, John McGhee, worked at the top of the cousie appeared to have run past the No.4 Pit bottom and down the dook. At the time it was believed that was where his body was located. The men workings in the dook workings all escaped with the exception of eight.
Efforts were, made to locate the missing men but for a long time, the rush of water prevented access either down the dook or up the cousies from the No. I Pit or by the communication roads from the No. I Pit. By midnight the rush of water had abated and several explorers were able to get to a point in the cousie where they met an impenetrable blockage which evidently dammed back a large volume of water. As it was dangerous to attempt to clear this, dynamite charges with long fuses were set. Two shots were fired without any visible effect.
By noon of the 3rd. August the water behind the dam was pined off' and relays of men started to redd their way through the obstruction. They found that it had been caused by a race of hutches round which stones and silt had collected. By 11 a.m. on the 4th. the barrier was penetrated for 30 yards without any signs of the top being reached when the knocking of imprisoned men was heard, About I p.m. a passage was made and five men crawled through. Renewed efforts were made to find any of the men missing in the dook but after every accessible place had been searched, all hope of them being alive was abandoned.
Alex Preece at Sol Joel skatepark. The X-E2 is not really cut out for this stuff, but a couple shots turned out ok.
Caritas Indonesia is coordinating relief efforts in four dioceses - Atambua, Larantuka Weetebula and the Archdiocese Kupang - following massive flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Seroja.
The disaster has damaged or destroyed thousands of homes and forced many people to take refuge in evacuation centres.
Catholic youth volunteers and neighbouring dioceses are helping Caritas distribute items and clear debris and mud from people’s homes.
As of 15th April 2021, 181 people were confirmed dead, 12,344 were displaced and 47 missing and 258 injured from the flash floods and cyclone which hit the East Nusa Tenggara islands on 4th April. For the infrastructure damage, 66.509 houses were affected during the flash floods and whirlwind.
Copyright: Caritas Indonesia/Caritas Atambua
Copyright: Caritas Indonesia/Caritas Atambua
A news article revealing how the Hillsborough Disaster was reported in American newspapers - in this example, from The Palm Beach Post on April 16, 1989.
Amanda James, Senior Community History Officer introduces Anne Dineen, Senior Preventive Conservator Artlab Australia to the workshop participants at the beginning of the day. The morning session was theory and learning how to write a Disaster Plan.
These plants represent a huge success story for habitat conservation in the state of Florida. At one time the Tate's Hell Swamp was heading for ecological disaster very similar to what "the grid" of the Green Swamp in North Carolina is facing today.
Unsustainable industrial forestry practices were attempting to drain the swamp and grow trees that could not otherwise survive in the swamp habitat. In the past decade, the state of Florida has purchased the majority of this land and started restoration practices by removing the garbage trees and restring historic hydrology.
I have visited this particular site first back in 2001 at which time there were some truly spectacular hybrids and large populations of S leucophylla. Over the next decade, prior to restoration practices, the diverity at this site was nearly lost due to altered hydrology and the replanting of slash pine.
The site is now restored as a grassland prairie and these images represent the slow recovery of what will likely become a spectacular site in time.
In 2004 I was already a grown ass man with his own apartment & mortgage, a nice car and a very steady job. Then I bought this bus. I should not have bought this bus.
Ricardo Ansit, president of Canhabagat United Farmers Association on Cebu Island.
Photographer: Wendy Flick
Complete. Disaster. This was meant to be the Heather Ross All-weekend sundress. But I think it was too ambitious for my first garment. The upper bust was meant to be shirred. I didn't trust shirring to keep it up, so I looped through a length of elastic and hemmed it. The waist was meant to be shirred, but I messed up and ended up unpicking it all. And none of the side seams on each of the tiers meet. BUT the gathered bottom tier swishes as I walk which looks cool. And I'll wear it all summer long. Like the Beach Boys said.
14 June 2021 - Virtual High-level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought - Panel I. From top left, Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, UN Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel; Agnes Kalibata of Rwanda UN Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit; Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme; Nicole Schwab, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum; Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General; Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction; and Roger Pulwarty, Physical Scientist.
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Roofless, Homeless but not Hopeless sign shows the resilience of the people of Ormoc, Leyte Island.
Photographer: Wendy Flick
(2019) Disaster & a Caterpillar
Really like HBO's Chernobyl (2019) so decided to make to make a tribute poster, using 4 of photos I grabbed from the show, mixed and knocked them down to 6 colors.
I really like the scene which Borys Shcherbyna (played by Stellan Skarsgård) let a caterpillar crawls on his hand, so try to made that as the center of this image.
Initially I didn't intend to add Valery Legasov (played by Jared Harris), but found out the silhouette on the hand match his profile photo pretty well so included it.
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