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i got really shocked by the photo of the 'Yomiuri' newspaper i read on the airplane back to japan.
a 4 year old girl who lost her parents and sister have written a letter to her mother.
'dear mama. i hope you are alive. are you fine?'
she spent an hour to write this letter and fell asleep.
i felt really sad....
in Kyoto , many people took pictures of maiko(geisya) having a box for donation in 1minute walk from my apartment. the only thing i can do now is just donation, but i think every people not only in japan but also in the world are thinking about victims and are cheering you.
be strong!!
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Bohemian National Cemetery
"SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship capsized while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
Another tale of incompetence and greed. Notice a theme?
...my beautiful piece of glass from Murano, Venice has shattered! One moment it was sitting in its magnificent perfection, next time I looked - it had cracked, all the way round!!!
The conductor of Freeport-McMoRan’s Clifton job prepares to dismount and line the runaway track switch for his train. The steep grades between here and the mines in Morenci will put a runaway rail car or out-of-control train at lethal speeds, potentially in mere seconds. Like many of the runaway truck ramps found on highways and freeways, this spur protects the many town residents below it from a potential disaster.
Environmental Disaster.
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something terrible happened yesterday. my camera decided that it wanted to almost bathe the sensor in dust. i am not talking one or two dust spots, i am talking many. so i attempted to dislodge them with a blower. worst. idea. ever. now i have to send away my camera to be properly cleaned :( and will be cameraless for 3-5 days.
as if this wasnt enough, in the morning i went to turn on my computer, and it refused to boot. having some knowledge of computers i attempted a fix, but this issue was beyond me. i enlisted the help of another far greater than i at computer repair, and managed to bring it back from the brink of death. however all of this meant that i didnt have time to post a photo of the day.
now because i no longer have a camera to work with, i have decided to scour through my old photos and re-edit them, and show some of my best work.
this was a shot taken at the beginning of 2015 down at petrel cove SA. i was lucky enough for this photo to be chosen for an editors choice on 500px, so far the proudest moment of my photography journey to date.
i feel i have rambled enough. but if you have happened to have read this far, i thank you. feel free to offer some CC below if you wish
Vintage - FDNY - March 1973
Location: Staten Island, NYC, NY
Smoke billows from the top of the containment tank at the Texas Eastern LNG facility in Staten Island. Workmen inside the tank were refurbishing the tank walls when a worker using a torch set off a massive explosion. The explosion caused the containment roof to collaspe killing all 40 workers inside.
Scanned from the original Kodak High Speed Ektachrome (ASA 160) slide.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) and South Carolina Department of Education (SCDOE) responded to severe flooding in South Carolina, by using of the National School Lunch Program, at the Richland County Schools - District One - Central Kitchen Facility, to provide disaster congregate feeding to those in need, in Columbia, SC, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.
In times of emergency, FNS coordinates with state and federal partners, as well as local volunteer organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, to provide USDA Foods to shelters and other mass feeding sites and, in limited cases, distribute food packages directly to households in need. USDA Foods are 100% domestically produced, processed and procured agricultural commodities that are made available to schools, tribes, and low-income individuals through FNS Nutrition Assistance Programs. Once retail food stores reopen, if survivors still need nutrition assistance and the area has received a ‘Presidential Disaster Declaration with Individual Assistance,’ State agencies may request to operate D-SNAP. People who may not normally qualify for nutrition assistance benefits may be eligible for D-SNAP if they had disaster-related expenses, such as loss of income, damage to property, relocation expenses, and, in some cases, loss of food due to power outages. Those already participating in the SNAP may be eligible for supplemental benefits under D-SNAP. For more information please visit this web site: www.fns.usda.gov/disaster.
Central Kitchen Facility is the only central kitchen in South Carolina. They provide meals to 32 schools. Operations start at 4-5AM. The meals are comprised of 10-11,000 lunches, 6,000 breakfasts, 3,100 snacks, 3,100 supplemental meals, district-wide catering and more. To accomplish this there are 38 employed here and a total of 150 across the entire operation of satellite kitchens and other facilities. 14 truck move food and commodities from here to where they are needed. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
For a high-resolution PDF version of this graphic, visit www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/statistics/
Great show by The Social Disaster at Grandma's Sports Garden, part of the Duluth Homegrown Music Fesitval 2016.
I love seeing and photographing shows by this band - great energy and music. Definitely check them out if they come to your town!
The 1911 mine fire, which started in Pancoast Mine's wooden engine house, killed 72 miners, mostly Polish, Slovak and Hungarian immigrants. Here is a compilation of contemporary reports from a Scranton newspaper. Police had to be called in to control undertakers, who were eager to claim unclaimed bodies, because the mining company would pay good money for their services.
The next day, April 8th, 1911, an explosion at the Banner Mine near Birmingham, Alabama killed 128 workers.
Iv'e been having crazy mood swings - stay away from me.
all the photos are of me when i was a youngin, for realss
this isn't even that nice aha.....
After some erratic moves in the tunnel, that beverage truck has just stopped on the shoulder with his end sticking out into traffic.
There's a very good reason why it's a No Stopping Area.
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This past weekend was Cundy's Harbor Days. This is a small village that is a long time fishing and lobstering community. Two events that take place on this annual celebration are the Blindfold Dinghy Race and the Lobster Crate Race. I posted two videos from the latter; my still photos just do not do justice.
This is a race based on the most crates stepped on in the shortest time with only feet allowed to contact.
All hands abandon ship!!! This is not a drill. Captain's first, and to hell with the children!
My soon to be deadlovely girlfriend had to move this slightly today, causing some damage. I then tried to repair the damage and she (the ship)ended up doing what can only be described as a "Barrel Roll" which resulted in this, the spread of parts goes off for another 6 feet out of shot, SHIT!
Something like this hasn't happened to me for a while. It's 14:01 and I'm considering hitting the bottle......
The entrance to a bumblebee nest. The bumblebees return to the nest with leg bags full of pollen. But it is pointless, the wax moth, (Aphomia sociella) catarpillars have hatched and have ravaged the nest eating all the bee larvae. The bees still enter their nest oblivious to the parasitic invasion. Unfortunately it is game over for the bees and the nest. Photo here flic.kr/p/2maPeeG Larger format video flic.kr/p/2mb13BJ
My computer suffered a complete disaster this weekend. A spyware virus apparently snuck past the software and firewall stuff and completely knocked out the laptop. I was not able to run any software of any importance and ended up taking it to a guy that managed to clean it up for me. UNFORTUNATELY - he had to wipe the hard drive clean and start over. FORTUNATELY - I have all of my files and photos backed up, so I hopefully lost very little other than ALL OF MY FREAKING SOFTWARE!!!!. Time will tell. I am going to spend the next day or two reloading all of my stuff.
Life can suck, but it would suck way worse without a very thorough backup plan.
Bluebird pair at the nest.
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On October 29, 2022, on Halloween Day, a disaster occurred in Itaewon.
Many people died or were injured.
In South Korea, there is still no punishment for those responsible for this disaster.
Most Koreans are still dissatisfied with the government.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
Photos from Portland's innagural Disaster Relief Trials.
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Scene of destruction after a forest fire on Cloudy Hill in 1995. The Way of the Shoestring Outdoor Photographer, the book associated with this photo can be found at:
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I just married a man with more than 50 handkerchiefs. That is some serious ironing that my OCD won't let me ignore.
//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
The worst railway disaster ever in British history occurred at a place called Quintinshill, near Gretna Green in Scotland on 22 May 1915.
More than 200 people lost their lives when a packed troop train taking Soldiers of the Royal Scots Regiment from Leith, near Edinburgh, to the war collided with a stationery train at high speed. The crushed wooden coaches caught fire and to compound the tragedy an express train going the other way was unable to stop in time and ploughed into the survivors and debris. Many died trapped in the coaches unable to escape the fire.
214 of the 226 who died were soldiers and their remains were taken back to Edinburgh where they were buried in a mass grave at Rosebank Cemetery. A large memorial was erected at that point within the cemetery and my picture shows that location.
For many years the disaster was mostly forgotten but interest was rekindled on the 100th anniversary of the event.
However only a few Edinburgh citizens are aware of this memorial. Despite that, every year a remembrance service takes place here attended by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and members of the Royal Scots association.
The LP's I kept when we moved - the ones I wanted - were flooded as our wash sewer line clogged. Luckily it wasn't the toilet line ;) ... but it was shower water, dishwasher water, clothes wash water... The LPs covers have started to grow some fuzz. I'm not sure what to do, take them out doors into some dry warm place and let them dry, buy a DJ cartridge that tracks at 4 grams? Meanwhile I don't like the dark stain that is on the walls of the basement... that can be expensive.
So anyway, Spirit uses water to teach us. in this case it is about non-attachment and humbleness. Or the value of non physical music storage?
Loch Ness on a day of disasters!
It was cold last night, with a good bit of snow... so much so that our chicken enclosure collapsed under the weight build up (it is now propped up with a set of step ladders!). Then I discovered that one of my back tyres was a little deflated, the air line at the garage did nothing but their compressor in the workshop got it up to pressure for a trip to Inverness for a bit of an image change on my behalf and then a business meeting which turned out to succomb to the weather and is being rescheduled.
Home now and getting used to the new look ;-) It is a very, very severe change!!! And also buying a full set of tyres on 6 month interest free because it's almost a grand for a new set of boots!
Yes... I could have just changed the one rear, but the two fronts are half worn and terrible in bad weather anyway and only yesterday I was saying it needs something better... so a full set of Michelin Cross Climates it is, booked in for Monday and tomorrows job rescheduled to next week.
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I just deleted this album then re-loaded it to un tag a dealer i have problems with and to blow off steam about his companies' problem. it won't take the wind out of my sales for the love of life on the road. I just spent the last two hours deleting tags to dealers I’ve made large purchases from. The next step is to take their name off of my Truck and Fifth Wheel! That will teach them! I’ve even deleted two entire albums of photos with tags leading friends to the dealerships. My small protest but to have to spend more money in civil court. There should be a court for dealing with consumer products after large purchases and problems exist. Who can afford to do that and or spend the time teaching the bad dealer a lesson! It’s hard when you live on fantasy island and want to believe there are people out there that are true pros and true craftsmen. I know there are a few people out there because I met them and refused to do business with other dealers because I met them too. I’ve seen a guy weld a Holiday Rambler that broke in half over night at the frame and get me back on the road. There is even an RV dealer five minutes from my house that did such a poor job on a 30 foot trailer I want to restore that they lost a ten-grand restoration job! I went elsewhere for a purchase. Where is Brett Michaels when you need him! Now to find the proper venues to vent. Do you think the dealer’s sites post bad reviews? I’m the perfect sucker for a Salesman that cares nothing but for the commission or if they aren’t paid on commission for the BS they lay on you to kill time to eventually close the sale. I shopped for years at many different places within the State and even some Florida dealers for the right RV for me. I have twenty years’ road experience with travel trailers in and out of campgrounds and dealers. The hard part is when you find a good mechanic you are often down the road on the next adventure. The dealer can’t take away my enthusiasm for the joy of my new trailer. They are so useful when built properly and so versatile for travel or events or full time Road Warriors! Who wouldn’t be frustrated when there are 18 jobs that need attention! I was told by the salesman I’d get a good education from top to bottom and the demo guy was going to send me out of the dealership with the fifth wheel receiver or jaws ungreased with no Teflon pad for the fifth wheel! I really needed a fifth wheel hooking and unhooking lesson along with good Hydraulic jack lesson. I was good for most other things except how the solar panel works. But they try hard to push you off on the useless manuals or Destruction books because they are over worked and under staffed in the service area. I get that. Except learning the hard way almost cost me my hand with a bed and the fifth wheel. Luckily I’m quick. Sometimes I don’t know if I should have been a great mechanic a teacher or a great lawyer. I walked HIM through greasing the B&W hitch and greasing the receiver and made him put the Teflon pad he was going to make me leave without that I bought two years ago in anticipation of having a fifth wheel from Mark (the good guy) at the RV show in Greensboro. No kidding, I put a lot of thought into this. Needless to say, he has mechanical skills beyond my capability and they used the excuse it was market time or the RV show to be short with me. Now that I have tested things on the trailer before a trip and found at least 18 jobs that need to be done after waiting for a call for parts that had already been delivered and a call never received then accused of not paying for screens that didn’t fit and that a $125.00 per hour fee was going to be charged, who wouldn’t be upset? Did I mention this? It will always be something! They can just put the nail in the coffin for the common belief that it is over after the Sale is done. Getting passed off from one department to the other is unforgiveable! The excuse is familiar. I just do Sales; you have to talk to Service. Service says we just do Service, you have to go to parts. Even with lifetime warranty printed and tagged all over the trailer with a promise to teach you about how everything works I’ve found out the hard way from a popular dealer in Rural Hall, NC that it is not the case! It’s too bad I didn’t buy my Truck or RV and drive all the way to Atlanta to deal with @Scott Trail or find a similar friend that would make sure everything is right. Dream on Consumer! So, if any name bashing starts remember we always have one friend in the car, RV, insurance or Sales business. When we overall call all Salesman assholes or all insurance companies thieves or all dealings with service mechanics complete disasters we have to remember we have people on our friend’s lists that have those jobs. You know what, right now after a huge purchase and being shuffled it’s amazing I can work up any mercy for any of them. I’ve tried to be a Salesman. Service over profit was my downfall. I’ve tried to be a Customer Service Rep. It was difficult talking to people that needed parts after a large purchase when you just learned there aren’t any parts! We are all selling something whether we know it or not. If you aren’t taking pride in your job to be the best you can be and just killing time you are a part of this problem! Not everyone has a dream job. But it is just my turn to take a punch, but I’m swinging back! It is just unfortunate for them I know a little about RVs. I must have too high a standard to believe that there are really people that give a damn about products or follow through after the sale. I hate that we just don’t care attitude that leaves you searching for a better place. I had a place in Mooresville that I will find again for service. Hopefully the same family runs the place. It is near the Lake in Terrell. I need to return to and find another mobile mechanic once that moved on to a dealer in the mountains and I can’t dig his name up. There are good people out there. They are so hard to find. Maybe it is just me. I expect too much after laying down a hard-earned wage or a life savings for a house, new car, recreation vehicle or piece of equipment that is supposed to work. When I get a new toy, I want to take a photo of every nut bolt and screw on it, one because I am proud, the other reason is for future reference when things fall apart. Buyer’s remorse sucks even if you know the term all too well, Buyer Beware! I saw one guy at the current dealership I am dealing with now running, literally running to get from customer to customer after my purchase. In between him and the good mechanics are problems! The good guy’s name is Mark. He is extremely smart and knows RV’s and fifth wheels up and down. He was literally running with a ladder and carrying three heavy hitches with him to try to wait on at least two customers at the same time. I’m always leaving a window or looking for the good and hoping I’m not back on fantasy island. There were excellent qualified educated trailer technicians in the service in a good building with the right tools to build trailers from scratch, including paint. Getting to them is a full-time job on the customer’s end. They even had parts delivered that they owed me on what they call a we owe and hadn’t bothered to call in a three-week period. They wanted to double charge for some bug screens around 50 bucks until I produced a paid receipt. Even after the Salesmen told (I know his name) the parts manager he personally sat with the mechanic for a half hour trying patiently to put on the wrong screen. Even with lifetime warranty written all over my trailer they wanted to charge me for service $125.00 per hour for labor. That must be some sort of trick. For $125.00 an hour most any parts should be free! I waited three hours even with a scheduled appointment to even get told they were ready to take her in. Two days later I had to force the call to get an eta on when she would be ready. Imagine if I were a full timer living full time in my RV or still doing three shows a day in three different cities a day. Fortunately, I am gifted with a little time. The service manager mentioned to do the 18 jobs I needed to be done he still had to order parts. Imagine I was sold a unit that I (The Customer) found at least 18 things to do after leaving the lot and running the unit. So, I am going to rescue my unit tomorrow and hope what they did fix after two days waiting can get me through my first trip until parts come for the rest of the job. Do you think I am a fool to take it back? It is a hard call! I’ll know tomorrow if I receive a bill or the trailer is in good shape. The tough part is, after you have been tough with service now your unit is at their mercy. I was told by a good agent I don’t take any crap from anyone. But sometimes it costs me. But those of you that are passive and just let them walk all over you take a bigger beating. With full time jobs or people that depend on their unit as a full-time vehicle you can imagine the pressure to change up vacation times or deal with time off from your job to take care of problems.