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A 15 minute wait in line to see the Disaster! set in Orlando. I used the Backlit HDR setting on the TX5.
This was a funny show that demonstrated some cool special effects. It starred an amazing hologram of Christopher Walken.
200/365
(vacation set: 5/12)
Our vacation met with many disasters, among them a failing phone and a case of strep throat (as represented above). Other disasters on this vacation included: torrential downpours while camping, an exploding lawn chair, a broken train, breaking camp in the rain, tornadoes, hotels.com failure, driving for 20 hours straight, the heat wave, a general head and chest cold, and probably a few others things I'm forgetting. With all that said, this really was the best vacation I've ever been on :)
Strobist: (it's been too long for me to remember all my settings)
1 sb600 above subject, camera right, 1/2 CTO, through speed grid.
1 sb600 camera right (much more sever angle than first strobe) shot through 12'' cardboard snoot.
Triggered with Cactus V4s.
The Tangiwai disaster is New Zealand's worst ever rail accident. It occurred on 24 December 1953 when the Whangaehu River bridge collapsed beneath a Wellington to Auckland express passenger train at Tangiwai, in the central North Island of New Zealand. The locomotive and first six carriages derailed into the river, killing 151 people. The Board of Inquiry into the accident found that it was caused by the collapse of the tephra dam holding back nearby Mount Ruapehu's crater lake creating a large lahar in the Whangaehu River, which destroyed one of the bridge piers at Tangiwai only minutes before the train reached the bridge.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were visiting New Zealand on their first royal tour when the disaster occurred. The Queen made her Christmas broadcast from Auckland, finishing with a message of sympathy to the people of New Zealand. Prince Philip attended a state funeral for many of the victims.
Image is from our New Zealand Railways Corporation collection.
Archives Reference: AAVK W3493 D1812
Dated 27 December 1953. View of wrecked car on river bank.
Other images from the NZ Railways Corporation collection related to the Tangiwai disaster can be seen in the following Flickr set www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/sets/72157638804665325/
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One of the swan's nests has flooded and the eggs are in the water, heartbreaking especially because that's it for the year, no second chances for swans. I really didn't expect it, when they built the nest the water at the reservoir was as low as it ever has been. So cruel that the rain fell at EXACTLY the worst time for them. It's the same reservoir where last year eight swan eggs just disappeared overnight, not the same pair though. At least the other two nests I've seen are ok, it's becoming pretty obvious our nesting birds have taken a hammering with the heavy rain and cold : ( I can't help but wonder if they feel any sense of loss or grief, ar maybe nothing at all.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
OMG!! disaster!!
After yesterdays high at overcoming PS phobia, I have probably ruined my fav little carry everywhere, perfect pictures everytime camera!! ;((((
Its not even a year old . . .sob!
I went for a wander down my gully to check out the creek and yes, I fell in!
Only one edge of the camera got wet. I dried it immediately, have now cleaned it with ethyl alcohol I got form the local pharmacy and its hanging about in front of the fan blower of our combustion stove - no, not too close. . .;))
fingers crossed??
Neither the card or battery got wet or any of that compartment. I took them both out and have it open just to be thorough.
It wasn't on & the lens was retracted but the little plastic lens covered now are stuck open after my clean. . .?
In this handout photograph released by The Indian Army on June 18, 2013, floodwaters of the River Alaknanda pass by the debris of a shattered roadway in Chamoli district in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on June 18, 2013. Torrential rains and flash floods washed away homes and roads in north India, leaving at least feared 60 people dead and thousands stranded, as the annual monsoon hit the country earlier than normal, officials said. Authorities called in military helicopters to try to rescue residents and pilgrims cut off by rising rivers and landslides triggered by more than three days of rain in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said. -----EDITORS NOTE---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / INDIAN ARMY" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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
From public signage:
On June 8, 1917, 168 men died in the Granite Mountain Mine Fire. The loss of life in this fire is metal mining’s greatest disaster.
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“Here they lie sleeping --- cut off ere their time
Givin’ their all to bring ore from the mine.
Shift after shift --- their’s but to toil,
With Buzzy or Lyner, Shovel or moil.
Irish and Serbian --- Cornish and Finn
Lascovich -- Maki -- Opie -- McGinn
Scotchman and Welshman -- Missourian -- Swede
McDonald and Evans -- Swanson and Reid.
Now their last shift is over --- at last deep enough
May the drilling be easy --- the bottom not rough
May the chutes all flow freely --- and no barring down
With things running easy ‘til they get in their round.”
William Burke, 1940
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World War I has begun. To meet the demand for copper, every mine is working to capacity. Friday morning, June 8, 1917, an electric cable being lowered into the mine gets away from workmen, and falls in a tangled coil below the 2400 level.
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TIME LINE OF THE FIRE - JUNE 1917
Friday, June 8
11:30 PM
The night shift of 410 men is at work. Four men go down to inspect the cable. An assistant foreman accidentally ignites the oily, frayed cable with his carbide lamp.
11:45 PM
The fires starts! Thick smoke drives the men from the 2400 level.
Midnight
The 4-deck cages are ready to be lowered to rescue survivors, but the signaling system is burned out.
Terror spreads through the workings and shift bosses try to warn men. Near the 2600 foot station, “the shaft is like a roaring furnace”.
Smelling the smoke, many of the miners escape through adjoining mines.
Gas penetrates to the High Ore, Diamond, and Badger mines.
Underground, J. D. Moore orders eight men to “make for the drift on the 2200 level”. They make a bulkhead and remain entombed for 50 hours.
Saturday, June 9
12:10 AM
Smoke is pouring from the shaft.
12:30 AM
Underground, Manus Duggan leads 29 men to the 2400 level and build a bulkhead. Thirty-eight hours will pass before they are found.
1:00 AM
Rescue attempts begun.
2:00 AM
Survivors tell of many badly burned bodies. “The soot was up to our knees. Several bodies are under the soot. They are all cooked.”
Sunday, June 10
11:00 AM
Underground, Duggan party struggles from the bulkhead to the shaft station and are met by startled rescue workers.
At the surface, the shaft bell rings from the 2400 level. The engineer spreads the alarm. It seems impossible for anyone to be alive at that level. The cage is lowered. Again, a signal -- this time to hoist. Up comes the cage with nine blackened and haggard men inside. Sixteen more miners are alive below!
Monday, June 11
9:00 AM
Underground, Moore’s bulkhead is discovered. Two men are dead, but six are revived and taken to the surface.
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A shift boss, J. D. Moore, saved six men from death. His group was underground for 50 hours. Moore died shortly before they were rescued.
Moore’s letter written in his time book:
FIRST LETTER
6-8-17
Dear Pet -- This may be the last message you will get from me. The gas broke about 11:15 PM. I tried to get all the men out, but the smoke was too strong. I got some of the boys with me in a drift and put in a bulkhead . . . . if anything happens to me you had better sell the house . . . . and go to California and live. You will know your Jim died like a man and his last thought was for his wife that I love better than anyone on Earth . . . We will meet again. Tell mother and the boys goodbye.
With love to my pet and may God take care of you.
Your loving Jim,
James D. Moore
SECOND LETTER
6-9-17 5:00 AM
Dear Pet: Well, we are all waiting for the end . . . . I guess it won’t be long . . . . We take turns rapping on the pipe, so if the rescue crew is around, they will hear us. Well, my dear little wife, try not to worry. I know you will, but trust in God, everything will come out all right. There is a young fellow here, Clarence Marthey. He has a wife and two kiddies. Tell her we done the best we could, but the cards were against us.
Goodby little loving wife
It is now 5:10
THIRD LETTER
6-9-17
7:00 AM
All alive, but air getting bad
Moore
One small piece of candle left.
Think it is all off
FOURTH LETTER
[Written on the cover of the book]
6-9-17
9 AM
“In the dark”
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Manus Duggan’s letters
These notes were found in the pocket of Manus Duggan, who saved the lives of 25 men by building a bulkhead against the gas. These notes were found when his body was recovered.
Sunday morning, 8:45.
Have been here since 12 o’clock Friday night. No gas coming through the bulkhead. Have plenty of water. All in good spirits.
I realize that all the oxygen has just been consumed. Everybody is breathing heavily. If death comes, it will be caused by all the oxygen used from the air in this chamber.
By the time all the men were rounded together Friday night, we were all caught in a trap. I suggested we must build a bulkhead. The gas was everywhere. We built a bulkhead and then a second for safety. We could hear the rock falling and supposed it to be the rock in the 2400 skip chute.
We have rapped on the air pipe continuously since 4 o’clock Saturday morning. No answer. Must be some fire. I realize the hard work ahead of the rescue men. Have not confided my fears to anyone, but have looked and looked for hope only, but if the worst comes, I myself have no fears, but welcome death with open arms, as it is the last act we all must pass through, and as it is but natural, it is God’s will. We should have no objection.”
DUGGAN
To my Dear Wife and Mother:
It takes my heart to be taken from you so suddenly and unexpectedly, but think not of me, for if death comes, it will be in a sleep without suffering.
I ask forgiveness for any suffering or pain I have ever caused. Madge, dear, the place [the Duggan home at 1010 Zarelda Street] is for you and the child.
MANUS
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From The Butte Daily Post on Saturday, 9 June 1917:
33 KNOWN DEAD; 162 MISSING
GRANITE MOUNTAIN DISASTER WORST IN METAL MINING HISTORY
BUTTE STAGGERS UNDER PARALYZING EFFECT OF TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. EVERY MINING OFFICIAL IN BUTTE AIDING IN THE GHASTLY RESCUE WORK
HELMET MEN BRAVING DEATH EACH MINUTE. LATE TODAY PENETRATED 2200 FOOT LEVEL OF THE MINE; THEY REPORT SCORES OF BODIES IN THE WORKINGS
Mining officials of North Butte and Anaconda Companies, after making every conceivable effort to gain access to the lowest depths of the mine and taking innumerable risks, declare that there is almost no hope that any of the missing men below the 1800 level are alive.
Thirty-three bodies have been recovered, score of others have been sighted by mines rescue teams and helmet men in the gas-filled workings and 162 of the 412 miners who went to work last night are still unaccounted for this afternoon as a result of the greatest disaster in the history of quartz mining, resulting from a fire of accidental origin in Granite Mountain shaft of the North Butte Copper Mining Company.
The entire mines rescue organization of the Butte district, most efficient in the world, coupled with every agency of the city government, is engaged in rescue work, but hope of finding any of the men who were cut off from escape by the smoke and gas which filled the underground workings was practically abandoned at noon, so that there is likelihood of the death toll reaching possibly more than 190.
The great loss of life, heroic efforts to quench the flames and to rescue any who might still be alive produced a condition of confusion at the mine from which it is almost impossible to get an exact summary of the situation, although it is known that the Granite Mountain shaft is caved for some distance, due to the burning of timbers and effects of the big volume of water poured into it to stop the inroads of the flames.
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On Saturday April 15th 1989, 24,000 Liverpool fans descended upon Sheffield and made their way to Sheffield Wednesday's neutral stadium, Hillsborough for the televised FA Cup semi- final football match against Nottingham Forest. Tragically 96 never returned home.
I watched my parent's TV in disbelief as the tragedy unfolded and the match was officially abandoned after just six minutes of play whilst the unofficial death toll continued to rise.
This shot was taken at Hillsborough, less than 24 hours after so many people had lost their lives in that same area. The biggest shame is that not one person has been held accountable for the tragedy.
24,000 tickets, 23 turnstiles, two grossly overcrowded pens and 96 Liverpool supporters were crushed to death along with 766 people injured. Investigations found that too many gates were opened (allegedly ordered by the police) letting a large throng of fans to stream into an already full to capacity area which surrounded by anti hooligan fencing meant that no one could easily escape .
You'll never walk alone.
Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Glendale, Burbank, Compton, Oxnard, Rialto, Bakersfield and Fresno Fire Departments participate in live fire drills for their explorers as part of the 2014 Disaster Drills at Del Valle.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - Your LAFD Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) gathered on October 5, 2019, for a disaster drill simulating a devastating wind storm that has knocked out power and caused widespread damage. These selfless volunteers train on their own time to hone their skills to respond as volunteers in times of crisis.
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This is my craft room's closet, currently without doors or drapes. This picture was taken about three months ago and looks slightly different. A tad messier perhaps. Soon it will be perfect for me to work in. Once the craft room organizing fairy visits.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
El túmul gegant de Barnenez, a la Bretanya, és un dels més grans i antics d'Europa. Construit en dues fases entre el 4800 i el 4000 aC (aixó és només fa 6800 anys!), és molt més antic que les piràmides d'Egipte, i compta amb 11 cambres funeraries independents.
És increible pero fins els anys 50 del s. XX era explotat com a gravera! Per la part posterior es van carregar una quarta part del volum per el molt prioritari objectiu de fer llambordes!!
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The cairn of Barnenez, in Brittany, is one of the biggest and oldest in Europe. Built about 6500 years ago, it has 11 chambers for the dead, and a frontage of 72 meters.
And here you have, one of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe, known as such since 1850, but then exploted as a stone quarry till 1950! Ok, let's destroy this monument to make paving stones!
Hurricane Michael's aftermath in Panama City, Florida almost four months after the DISASTER and no matter what direction you look you will see destruction or signs of destruction. Most homes still have the Blue tarps on them. The streets are clear and everyone is working to make things better.
Copyright © ShoreShot Photography 2019
"Disaster - The Musical" performed at The GEM Theater in Garden Grove, CA. All Rights Reserved © 2019 Ron Lyon Photo
//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.
One hundred years ago, the sinking of the Titanic sent an electric shock wave through the Gilded Age of progress. People around the world are still fascinated by the disaster, seen as a parable of the human condition, inspiring countless books and a dozen movies. For better or worse, we learn about the past through historical epics which blend fact with fiction, mixing real figures with made-up characters like Jack and Rose in Titanic (1997). We’re left wondering. Which stories are true?
Even the excellent CBC documentary, Titanic: the Canadian Connection made mistakes. Crew member Emma Bliss is on a list of second-class passengers bound for Canada. Well, Mrs. Bliss arrived here eventually, settling in Toronto and living her final years in the Beach. She was a survivor, living to 93, almost as long as the fictional Rose, but she was hardly a pampered passenger. As a stewardess in first class, Mrs. Bliss catered to every whim of her wealthy guests. Like Rose, the ladies often needed a maid’s help to get in and out of their elaborate clothing. (Rose managed well enough when Jack was around!).
Each Titanic film reflects the attitudes of its era. In the 1953 Hollywood version Titanic, a couple is near the end of their relationship on a ship near the end of its life. Stewardess ‘Emma’ waits hand and foot on the fictional upper-class Sturges clan. The plot focuses on the drama of this family in crisis. The iceberg is the only villain. Even the snobbish father finds redemption. The message for a conservative America in the Atomic Age was that in times of trouble the issues that divide us are not important and we must hold fast to traditional values, such as courage and loyalty.
The truth is always a good story. The British docu-drama A Night to Remember (1958) is the most authentic of the Titanic films, depicting the events without fictional characters or subplots. For many survivors the realism was just too painful. A few months before her death in 1959, Emma Bliss was in the hospital and invited to watch a showing of the movie. She couldn’t help but cry at the painful memories the film evoked. Almost all of the stewards and three of the first-class stewardesses lost their lives.
A Night to Remember portrays the stiff-upper-lip British officers as gallant heroes saving noble aristocrats. A true-to-life scene shows yachtsman Major Arthur Peuchen climbing down ropes to help man lifeboat #6. His survival led to his undoing, branded a coward back in polite Toronto society for not being ‘gentleman’ enough to go down with the ship.
Lifeboat #6 must surely be the most famous in popular culture. In Titanic (1953), Mrs. Sturges is saved on this lifeboat, but her young son gives up his seat for a lady (in fact, #6 was lowered less than half-full.) In Titanic (1997), brash Molly Brown implores Rose to climb in, but Rose runs away. The real Margaret Brown was never called Molly in her lifetime. Her nickname was Maggie, but Molly sounded better in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). Mrs. Brown and Major Peuchen argued with Quartermaster Robert Hichens who refused to go back to pick up people freezing to death in the icy water, saying, “It’s our lives now, not theirs.” It was Hichens who was at the wheel when the great ship hit the iceberg.
The silver screen echoes real events. Wealthy hockey player Quigg Baxter of Montreal smuggled his new girlfriend on board under an assumed name, a forbidden love across class divisions. Quigg introduced Belgian cabaret singer Berthe Mayne to his mother and sister at lifeboat #6. His last words were, “Look after her, au revoir.”
James Cameron’s epic Titanic (1997) is a star-crossed love story set onboard a ship run by incompetent officers and heartless aristocrats. In this romanticized account, steerage passenger Jack teaches privileged Rose to rebel and spit in the face of upper class vultures like Cal. Cameron gives a nod to his Ontario roots by naming the villain ‘Caledon Hockley’ and having Jack from Chippewa Falls (the director grew up in Chippawa, part of Niagara Falls.) A favourite ‘evil queen’ in movies is Lady Duff Gordon, the fashion designer ‘Lucille’, who spent her early childhood in Guelph as ordinary Lucy Sutherland.
One heart-breaking event was the loss of the Allison family as told in the recent miniseries Titanic (2012). Hud and Bess Allison were returning to Canada with 2-year-old Loraine, 11-month-old Trevor and an entourage of servants. In the confusion the nanny took Trevor to lifeboat #11 and both were saved. Holding Loraine, a frantic Mrs. Allison jumped out of boat 6 and refused to leave the ship without her baby boy. Loraine was the only first or second class child lost in the tragedy.
The British miniseries tells the story through the eyes of characters from the crew and the different social classes. An Italian waiter falls in love with an English stewardess who tries to help Bess Allison. An episode shows the real actress Dorothy Gibson, who would survive to make Saved from the Titanic, the first movie about the disaster, released within a month.
The true story of the Titanic is more compelling than anything Hollywood could invent. Behind every scene is a human face with a story to be told and a life to be remembered. And the band really did play on…
www.beachmetro.com/2012/04/03/story-titanic-survivor/
On April 15, 1939 four Toronto-area survivors met for a Titanic reunion dinner. Elizabeth and Madeleine attended along with stewardess Emma Bliss who also lived in the Beach for many years with her three adult children (Mrs. Amy Armstrong on Balmy Avenue, Ernest on Hubbard Boulevard, Henry). The man who arranged the reunion was John Collins, who at 17 had been swept off the deck of the sinking ship while trying to rescue a woman and her two infant children. Collins pulled himself aboard collapsible B and was saved by that same tin whistle, the only teenage crew member to survive, though “the child was washed out of my arms.” It was a memory that would haunt the young man’s mind for the rest of his life. John Collins died in a Belfast psychiatric hospital in 1941. The young assistant cook was fondly remembered by Emma Bliss, who lived to the ripe old age of 93. She died at Nevers Nursing Home on Beech Avenue in 1959; her funeral was held at the long-gone Wear Funeral Home at 2114 Queen St East.
Buried Prospect Cemetery
Dominica in the hurricane’s aftermath. Dominica has always been the Caribbean’s "Nature Island," where people have been accustomed to drinking from springs. With a population of only 73,000, it has been fairly safe to do so. If disaster waste is not controlled, that relationship with nature could become their biggest vulnerability.
To find out more: www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/preventing-h...
2018 © Dan Stothart
Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) of the Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian mission in Philippines purified available source of water using state-of-the-art water purifying machine with a capacity of 33,000 liters per hour to provide safe drinking water to typhoon stricken communities of Compostela Valley and in the municipalities of Boston, Cateel and Baganga in Davao Oriental after typhoon Pablo devastated in Mindanao region in 2012. The humanitarian team provided drinking water to calamity victims dubbed as “Tabang MindaNow”. Water and sanitation is the most serious and pressing concerns after the disaster as major pipelines and reservoir badly damaged while bottled water doubled the regular prize making the ‘water’ as the most pricey due to unavailability of potable water. Typhoon Pablo is the second strongest typhoon that hit Central and Southern Mindanao since 1912 or 100 years ago. The people of Central and and Southern Mindanao expressed gratitude to Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian team for helping a hands to waterless typhoon stricken communities here.
Photo and text by Rhaydz Barcia, Correspondent THE MANILA TIMES
...from a series of images taken during and after the flooding which took place in north central virginia on June 26-27, 1995 in the county of Madison. these cars were caught up in the landslide which occured after the second day of heavy rain.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
GoServ Global Development Director Chris Caswell talks about GoServ and Sukup Manufacturing Company's Safe T Home® and the 500 Safe T Homes that survived the earthquake in Haiti, how Sukup employees gladly work to produce the parts and how charitable groups help with the costs and labor to build the homes where needed around the world and nationally, while at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA, on August 31, 2022. They showcase a highly modified grain bin resistant to earthquakes, termites, and moisture. Grain bin houses or silo homes have provided disaster relief to families worldwide with day-to-day shelter for those who need a safe place to live.
A devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, destroying homes, businesses, and facilities. During the recovery period, their teams saw an opportunity to build cost-effective refugee housing that would withstand natural disasters.
These homes have withstood Hurricane Matthew's 145-mile-per-hour winds for the 8-hour duration with minimal damage. Since then, they have provided nearly 300 silo homes in Haiti, as well as homes in Uganda for refugee children fleeing from South Sudan, Peru, and Kenya.
A Safe T Home® costs $5,700 for nonprofits intending to use the grain bin house for humanitarian efforts. Approximately ten homes fit on one shipping container. Other installation costs for shipping and building the cement foundation can bring the prices to roughly $7,500 for one of these homes.
The overall round design withstands high winds, while the near-zero seismic load is virtually earthquake-proof. Inside, 254 sq. ft. provides families with long-term refugee housing or short-term disaster relief.
These homes made of 20-gauge galvanized steel have a 75-year life expectancy. These silo homes measure 18 ft. in diameter with eight ft. sidewalls. They stand 13.5 ft. from the bottom to the roof peak.
The double roof system deflects heat, redirects rainwater, and ventilates the interior space regardless of wind direction. The roof can support 5,000 pounds for families who wish to add a sleeping or storage loft. Outside, three container spaces for cement and other heavy material provide up to 18,000 pounds of ballast to weigh the structure down against wind or waves. Window gardens can grow on the ballast material.
The galvanized building material provides 100 percent termite, fire, and weatherproof. The metal windows have lockable covers for security and 16-gauge, galvanized steel screens. Each home includes a solar panel, giving families renewable energy for lighting.
Homes also have water collection potential. Louvers in the heat shield capture rainwater for cooking, bathing, or growing crops.
GoServ Global is a nonprofit organization.
The Farm Progress Show allows visitors to see the latest equipment and more in Boone, IA, on August 31, 2022.
National and international farmers and ranchers can see agriculture's latest product introductions, meet face-to-face with agribusiness professionals, and gain hands-on knowledge. On hand are educational and U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA agencies such as the National Agricultural Statistics Service NASS, Risk Management Agency RMA, Farm Services Agency FSA, and Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS.
For more information about these organizations, go to:
nass.usda.gov
rma.usda.gov
fsa.usda.gov
nrcs.usda.gov
USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
Notes: The Granville rail disaster occurred on Tuesday 18 January 1977 at Granville, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages. The official inquiry found the primary cause of the crash to be poor fastening of the track.
It remains the worst rail disaster in Australian history; 83 people died and 213 were injured. An 84th victim, an unborn child, was added to the fatality list in 2017.
Format: colour slide
Date Range: 18 Jan 1977
Location: Bold Street rail overbridge, Granville, Sydney
Licensing: Attribution, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: JM 233
Terms of use: please acknowledge - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection
Provenance: Jeff Moonie
Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Glendale, Burbank, Compton, Oxnard, Rialto, Bakersfield and Fresno Fire Departments participate in live fire drills for their explorers as part of the 2014 Disaster Drills at Del Valle.