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A C-130 Hercules releases fire retardant over the trees in the mountains above Palm Springs, Calif., July 19, 2013. The unit was activated to assist the community with wildfires. The C-130 is assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Nicholas Carzis)
342/365 - 24/52
And what do you mean,
Are hills not tall but steep,
When the gauge reads half a tank,
And yet you've run on fumes for a week,
And you and i once worked fine,
Until you split your lip against the side of my fist,
So why do we bother,
With all this fighting,
And especially at our age,
And you never did right,
Turning names,
So why break bones for them,
And blackened lights your rage,
And you and i once worked great,
And you had high hopes,
Sorry guys i am playing catch up again and have to do this weeks theme again over the weekend. :(
I had a few ideas for the theme of disaster, some which seemed appropriate for the current time we live in, however i felt it would be better to go a little further in what could be considered a disaster.
For me that would be the rate of which our population is growing as represented by the lights on earth. We as a species are taking every ecosystem over, cutting down rain forests, polluting the rivers, overfishing the seas, diverting natural water, dumping trash in ever increasing land fills and flooding the air with pollutants. I see a ever increasing trend of lack of responsability taking over and if we do nothing now, we are going to see the world forever changed with the burden of mans greed and lifestyle showing no respect for that which gives us life and sustains us. To see habitats destroyed, cities taking over natural land and woodlands and species going extinct....that is a real disaster, and something to think over.
The Teleidoscope - (24/52) Disaster
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Skater Gabriel Leão fotografado sem saber por Caio Romano, voltando de um "fackie ollie disaster" com a camisa de sua tabacaria preferida, especialista em "smoking culture", com a maior qualidade e variedade da Cidade, a Wilbor Bong, localizada na Travessa Piedade N˚317, fone - (91)3223-8855
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OBS: Em baixo å direita, dois grandes nomes do skateboard nortista, Nelson "cão" e Augusto "formiga".
This a a little different take on Sand Hollow State Park in Utah. It's not a postcard picture the state of Utah would use to advertise Sand Hollow State Park. In any case, this was taken during the summer of 2021 as the US southwest had wild fires raging in many locations. In this picture the sky was filled with smoke which created the orange sky and light beam. I believe the smoke was from a wildfire in Arizona. On this particular day, the beach at Sand Hollow State Park was really smelly and nasty. I'm not sure what the green clumps are in the foreground but I stayed as far away as possible. Also, I saw a number of dead fish washing up on shore.
1 December 1923 - 1 December 2023, the tragedy of the Gleno dam.
Last October I took this photo, the left stump of the artificial dam, unaware of the fact that exactly 100 years earlier this dam had been completed.
In a few days, however, the centenary of its collapse and the tragedy that followed: destruction and death.
I report in full what is written on the information panels near the dam, a summary of what happened.
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The need for energy in a context of extreme scarcity leads the Galeazzo Vigano' company based in Ponte Albiate di Triuggio (Milan), to run its own cotton factories, to build its own hydroelectric plant by creating a dam along the course of the Povo stream , near the Gleno plain located at an altitude of 1500 metres.
In January 1917 the Vigano' company was authorized to derive water from the Povo torrent with an artificial dam and to exploit the Gleno basin whose capacity of 3,900,000 cubic meters was foreseen in the preliminary project signed by the engineer. Gmür of Bergamo.
In the years 1917-18 the same company started the infrastructures that the great hydraulic engineering work required such as the road for access to the workers, the cableway and the tracks for the supply of materials from the bottom. Valley.
In May 1919, the executive project signed by the same technician was deposited with the Civil Engineers which envisages the construction of a gravity-type dam, in hydraulic lime masonry with a thickness of 30 m, a length of 250 m and a height of 50 meters (approximately), resulting in a reservoir of 5,000,000 cubic meters of water.
In July 1919, excavation work began in the rock to support the dam and continued with the foundation and masonry works. In September 1920, the dam reached a height of 18 metres. In August 1920 Eng. G.B. Santangelo of Palermo replaces Eng. Gmür deceased.
In March 1921 the Civil Engineers approved the May 1919 project.
In July 1921, when the structure reached a height of 21.50 metres, the construction typology was completely changed, opting for the arched one with the consequent abandonment of the initial gravity one.
In November 1921, the Civil Engineers approved the project for the variation of the dam but in June 1922 the Ministry warned the Vigano company to carry out the works and ordered it to immediately present the projects for the variation of the construction system with further details and checks; this happens in February 1923.
May 1923, the dam advances and there are still about ten meters of height left before its completion.
22 October 1923, following heavy rains, the reservoir filled completely for the first time and the abundant water losses in the structure greatly worried the inhabitants of the villages below and the Civil Engineering technicians. 1 December 1923 at 7.15am. Its tragic collapse is the inevitable cause of death, destruction and desolation in the Scalve Valley and Camonica Valley.
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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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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?
Arriva Kent & Surrey 3291 (Y291 TKJ) is prepared for a tow home from Woking station.
The truck is Lantern Recovery KS56 LRS. It also carries a "DAFaid" sticker, which is most appropriate for the Guildford fleet!
The Broadway, Woking, Surrey.
...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!!!
KUCHING, Malaysia (March 28, 2019) Pacific Partnership 2019 personnel stand at parade rest as the Military Sealift Command expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4) arrives at the Port of Kuching. Pacific Partnership, now in its 14th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Each year the mission team works collectively with host and partner nations to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security and stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nicholas Burgains)
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.
Look upon the field of snow
To find the desert sea
Under the ice the springs will flow to release
Fecundities like a natural disaster .
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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.
Artist: Damian Michaels
Title: Disaster Comes !
Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 210 x 200 mm
Year: 1994
Private collection, South Australia.
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.