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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)
File name: 77103
Title: Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site
Creator/Contributor: Globe Newspaper Co. (creator)
Date created: 1919-01-15
Description: Twenty one people were killed on Commercial Street in the North End when a tank of molasses ruptured and exploded. An eight foot wave of the syrupy brown liquid moved down Commercial Street at a speed of 35mph. Wreckage of the collapsed tank visible in background, center, next to light colored warehouse. Elevated railway structure visible at far left and the North End Park bathing beach to the far right.
Genre: Photographic prints; Aerial views
Subjects: Accidents; Floods; Molasses Disaster, Boston, Mass., 1919
Notes: Verso of print stamped Boston Globe.
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
Pakistan floods 2010.
Asif, photographed on the flooded main street of the submerged town of Khanpur Nathan Shah.
"I was sleeping. Then the flood came. We waited for two or three days. We had nothing left to eat or drink. And then we escaped. The boat picked us up. We didn't have to pay them, they took us free of charge".
In Late July 2010 heavy monsoon rains led to massive flooding across large parts of Pakistan, affecting up to 20 million people.
ActionAid responded to the disaster immediately, working with local partners and communities to provide food, temporary shelter and items such as blankets and cooking utensils. Our long term response (continuing until end 2012) focuses on supporting people to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, and to become less vulnerable to future disasters.
Photo: Gideon Mendel/Corbis/ActionAid
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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".
Nunca había tenido el pelo así de largo.
Never had my hair this long!
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Using the Guardian as a shield,
to cover my thighs against the rain,
I didn't mind about my hair.
Your jacket may be waterproof,
but knowing the moment you get home
you're gonna get your trousers changed.
Failure is always the best way to learn,
retracing your steps 'til you know,
have no fear your wounds will heal.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
...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!!!
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
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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Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona, USA. Sunbeam shining into the narrow slot of Antelope Canyon in the middle of the day.
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!
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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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. This is not an endorsment. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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!
Castle AFB was a Cold War era Strategic Air Command installation in central California. It was converted to civilian use in 1995, but it still has some restricted areas that are spectacular relics of the war on American soil that never happened.
This backlit marker board showing a map of the base was hidden behind curtains inside the "War Room", the nerve center of the base. Most of the movable equipment in the room had been removed years ago and everything that was left had a thick coating of dust.
Indoors, dark room, natural backlighting only.
Reprocessed and replaced, December 2023.