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A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard (a hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment) that negatively affects society or environment.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability are not considered a disaster, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater (as a percentage of GDP) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.
A disaster can be defined as any tragic event that may involve at least one victim of circumstance, such as an accident, fire, or explosion.
The last of the Chardonnay. and my favourite wine glass...Both gone!
For the November MSH - Disaster
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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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.
Time expired Leyland Nationals await the scrapman's cutting touch at Barnsley in February 2000.
TPE151S had started life as Alder Valley 274 in August 1977. Here's a link to a picture of the bus when still in service: andyharris.fotopic.net/p28576948.html
Well, you couldn't make it up.
After a week of almost unbroken sunshine in Cumbria the rains returned to coincide with the arrival of nuclear waste from Japan for reprocessing and the running of the attendant twice a year rail movement.
The KXA wagons were taken from Sellafield to Barrow docks last Friday and remained there over the weekend.
The two TN28 VT Highly Active Waste nuclear flasks were off-loaded from the 6800 ton M.V. Pacific Egret in readiness for their transportation from the Marine Terminal to Sellafield as 7X24 ("X" denoting an out of gauge commodity).
This working, together with the earlier light-engine southbound movement, had been showing in the system for a couple of days so I knew it was almost certainly a goer.
Nearly got caught out though; the 0C23 09.23 Sellafield - Barrow light-engines ran all the way to the docks without reporting on RTT.
As there have been previous occasions when the whole shooting match was binned at the last minute I wasn't unduly surprised by the apparent non-running.
It was only when I checked a TOPS list at 11.30 and discovered that 2 loco's were showing at Barrow M.T. that I realised it was all systems go, chucked everything in the car and floored it southward.
The forecast was rain, followed by rain and then more rain so there weren't going to be any heroics in the location department.
Millom station, with its lengthy "up" platform awning seemed the best option so I went there.
With internet coverage being sporadic, to say the least, I was grateful for the back-up from the area's semaphore signals.
I knew that power would be provided by Nos.57007 & 37688 but I didn't know which would be leading.
Sod's Law it was the wrong one!
Ordinarily you'd be able to see the hills across the Duddon estuary beneath the footbridge but not today. The rain was absolutely hammering down as the train rounded the curve.
I've shot four or five of these workings now and never got close to getting one in the sun.
Environmental Disaster.
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I took this photo after almost 9 months of natural disaster which was claimed to be responsible for almost 5700 death. a cloud burst flood occurred on june, 17 2013 at Kedarnath valley and some other of northern uttarakhand. This Institute is located almost 120 kilometers away from the kedarnath and as visible has been half submerged in sand flooded through river alaknanda (which is called Ganga after meet with another stream of Bhagirthi at Devprayag, Uttarakhand) at Srinagar. This institute was already atleast 15 meters above the river level. This was really unfortunate day for the uttarakhand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods
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.
Artist: Damian Michaels
Title: Disaster Comes !
Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 210 x 200 mm
Year: 1994
Private collection, South Australia.
Playlist Song : Disaster - Whiskey Bitches
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Done at the nature reserve Biedensand in Lampertheim, hesse at one of the old rhine armsat ISO100 73mm F4 and 1/320 sec
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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!
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.....
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.
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.
Everything packed / and off we go / to the borders / of the earth. But where is Noah / with the animals?
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:
Port Dover Harbour Museum; Port Dover, Ontario.
digitallibrary.uleth.ca/digital/collection/herald/id/1610/
Lethbridge Herald (March 29, 1928)
Altawandron Locked in Ice
Fate of Tug Off Long Point, Lake Erie is Still in Doubt
BRANTFORD, Ont., March 29.- The fate of the tug Altawandron and its crew of five men, locked in the ice on Lake Erie some miles from Long Point, remained in doubt today. It was stated by the light keepers at Long Point, that the visibility was so poor owing to a heavy haze that it was impossible to see any sight of either the Altawandron or the tug Jean F., which was reported to have been ice-locked Itself when going to the aid of the Altawandron yesterday. Word has been received at Long Point, however, that another tug had put out from Port Dover in an effort to reach the stranded fishermen and the light keeper reported hearing sounds of heavy explosions as though efforts were being made to dynamite a passage through the ice.
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 31, 1928
CREW OF 8 DRIFTING
ON TUG IN ICE FIELD
Planes Will Attempt to Drop Provisions to Disabled Craft
Today.
By the Associated Press.
PORT DOVER. Ontario, March 31
Held fast in the grip of the ice field,
the disabled tug Jean F, with eight
men aboard, was drifting toward the
American shore of Lake Erie today
under the lash of a fierce gale.
The tug, in addition to her crew of
six men, has Capt. Jack Matthews and
Lesllie Murphy of the fishing craft
Altawandron aboard. The Jean F.
was caught In the Ice while attempting
to break away through to the other
boat, which was caught in the ice a
week ago Friday.
Renewed efforts to bring off the men
and save the two boats is to be
made today, and If the weather clears,
a plane from Camp Borden plans to
fly over the Jean F. and drop provisions.
The department of national
defense at Ottawa also announced
an airplane would be sent to aid in
the relief of the men. The two craft
were believed to be within 20 miles of
Ashtabula, on the Ohio shore.
365.2.236 - 8 October
I just married a man with more than 50 handkerchiefs. That is some serious ironing that my OCD won't let me ignore.
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.
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.