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This is from the eruption of Ecuador's Volcan Tungurahua that started Nov. 27, 2011 and continued for about 10 days. After a period of calm, "Mama Tungurahua" starting erupting again yesterday morning.
This photo was taken facing the opposite direction from the flooded power station photo I uploaded earlier today, and shows the flood waters submerging tall power poles and rising up to meet Deerfoot Trail, the main north / south highway running through Calgary. The slope here in the valley that this water is settled in is fairly deep and really shows just how quickly the water was filling all available low areas.
Hope you are all having a safe and fun weekend!
Smoke plumes big enough to be mistaken for clouds, and they basically are. Wildfires of this dimension can create so called pyrocumulus clouds and produce it's own lightning, adding to the risk of more fires, which was the case in Fort McMurray. Photo from May 10th.
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Driving on back roads through burnt bush land after summer fires in Australia, the red leaves are fresh growth pushed out of the tree trunks, the leaves later turn green, soon the entire tree trunk and branches will be fully covered entirely with new leaf
The secular society - progressive evolution, social Darwinism, liberalism, situational ethics, moral relativism, secularism, humanism, atheism.
Worshipping nature - the belief that blind, natural forces created the universe, life and humanity.
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
If society worships nature, by refusing to acknowledge God as the creator, it acknowledges nature as the dominant power in the universe, and therby unleashes the unrestrained, blind forces of nature on the world.
God made a perfect creation, but original sin damaged the whole creation ... instigating, entropy, death, decay, corruption, mutations, illness, extreme weather, natural and cosmic disasters.
Only God, if we trust in in His mercy, can restrain and mitigate the dire consequences sin has on nature, which is groaning in its damaged, corrupted state of entropy.
Sin and denial of God have automatic consequences - they are made manifest in the vagaries of unrestrained, natural forces.
God gives the world exactly what it chooses.
If societies choose to worship nature, instead of God, is it surprising if He permits natural forces to do what they will, in all their intensity?
We get what we choose - chose nature and we will inherit the physical storms of nature, as well as the other dire consequences of denying the true Creator and the rules He has made for our benefit, resulting in violence, murder, wars, suicide, abortion, rape etc.
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Progressive evolution... the erroneous belief that blind, natural forces created life and humanity and all living things.
The neo-Darwinian idea - that the human genome consists entirely of an accumulation of billions of mutations is, quite obviously, completely bonkers. Nevertheless, it is compulsorily taught in schools and universities as 'science'.
www.flickr.com/photos/truth-in-science/35505679183
EUbabel. The evil empire. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
peuplesobservateursblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/togo-all...
A murmuration is the collective noun for starlings. This particular murmuration was huge. I imagine it was composed of tens of thousands of starlings which suddenly appeared in the evening sky over a lake near Northwich, called Neumann's flashes. They wheeled about in the sky, swooping down and then flying high, breaking up into smaller groups flying in different directions, performing a spectacular aerial dance. This went on for about ten minutes. Then they came down to feed among the tall grasses at the edge of the lake.
I was not expecting this spectacle, but luckily I had the telephoto lens on and was thus able to capture this magnificent display. I did not have a tripod with me, and as it was dark, some of the pictures are disappointing. I particularly like this one, showing a juxtaposition of nature with the man made. The actual sunset was much more vivid than seen here, but the photo is really about the birds rather than the sunset. So I have left it straight off the camera, unedited in any way.
Subsequently, I was deeply saddened to read that starlings are seriously endangered and that populations have been plummeting.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/04/wildlife-conse...
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This is straight out of the camera.
sun turns fiery red behind silhouette of gum leaves as the bushfire season begins in 2013
This was taken less than 200m metres from my house and is when the first of the Margaret River bushfires to start on the 23rd of November. So far 30+ homes, a 18th century mansion (very valuable to our comminity) and several hotels have been burnt down along with well over 3000 hectares of land. Luckily noone has been killed so far... I live out of town in a rural property and we missed the fire by mere metres... A very scary week so far for me!! Especially with exams! This bushfire was classified a natural disaster as of Last night
I recently acquired some rather special vintage photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake - including this 3 5/8" x 4 5/8" albumen print. No info on the back.
Haitians walk towards the health centre where NGO Acted is distributing re-hydration medical kits donated by UNICEF, in Grand Dessalines. The town is isolated by flooding from the Artibonite River and requires the kits to respond to a severe outbreak of cholera.
Photo ID 465206. 25/10/2010. Grand Dessalines, Haiti. UN Photo/UNICEF/Marco Dormino. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
Streets and pathways are flooded after the passing of Hurricane Tomas in Gonaives, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Photo ID 465289. 06/11/2010. Gonaives, Haiti. UN Photo/UNICEF/Marco Dormino. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
Children in Sindh, Pakistan, play at a water pump in a village.
The British government is supporting the refurbishment of thousands of water pumps in Sindh, as people return to their communities following the devastating floods which swept across Pakistan in 2010. The floods caused widespread damage to infrastructure across Pakistan, contaminating wells and water supplies. UKaid from the Department for International Development has provided funding to NGOs such as Concern, International Medical Corps, Mercy Corps, Oxfam and Save the Children, to provide clean drinking water, sanitation shelter and healthcare to thousands of families across Pakistan.
Find out more about the UK government's response to the Pakistan floods at www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months
Image: DFID/Russell Watkins
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Local call number: DG01262
Title: Wrecked vessels on Dog Island following the 1899 hurricane
Date: August 1, 1899
Physical descrip: 1 digital image - b&w
Series Title: Digital Collection
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Hearts Out to Nepal, Lifeline buried, how bleak the reaping of disaster, “lives forever altered or forever lost” beneath the hollowed Earth. Hush or you’ll be jinx’t. “Gays are the reason”, one politician claims, that disaster will follow to your l a n d s .
Never in sights, that at the hands of greed, the voracious reaping of your lands gifts could be sending ripples from sites far away. The domino effect a mere dream faced with truth, eyes blind, cross eyed, contradictions in plain view.
Hearts out to Nepal, in the aftermath of tragedy,there’s always hope to rebuild,but pain, never to be forgotten.
© Suna Cho
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In September 2018, I embarked on a solo road trip from Santa Cruz, CA to the East coast. As I approached Utah - a thick, towering cloud appeared on the horizon. It was dark when I entered Payson, a small town in Utah. Finally saw the source of the cloud - a wildfire raging through the Bald Mountain. I stopped my car at an exit, set the tripod and shot this dangerous, yet beautiful natural event.
The fire lasted for a month - eventually contained by a dedicated group of firefighters.
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Bald Mountain fire under the full moon. Payson, Utah 2018.
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Another photo from the aftermath of the Grand River flooding in Brantford, Ontario, last year.
The area where I am standing would have been completely flooded just a few hours before I took this photo. When the water receded it left behind large ice chucks that probably didn't melt for another month or two.
The Grand River, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
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Wildfires in Brazil - State of Goiás. This image was acquired by UK-DMC2 on the 10th July 2016. You can see the Wildfires still burning in the State of Goiás, Brazil approx 30km from Lagoa Santa.
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This is from the hurricane Katrina memorial in Biloxi, Mississippi. This was taken in the part of the memorial that was encased in glass. My cousins survived this terrible natural disaster but lost everything in doing so. They have all rebuilt and moved on but this memorial symbolizes what they went through that tragic day.
Here is the story regarding the memorial:
On Monday August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, the worst national disaster in the United States history, struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
In February 2006, Roy Anderson Corp partnered with the ABC reality television show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," to build the Hurricane Katrina Memorial on the Biloxi Town Green.
Roy Anderson Corp's construction team, including 130 employees and subcontractors, broke ground on Saturday, February 11, 2006. The Hurricane Katrina Memorial was unveiled during a public ceremony just five days later on Wednesday, February 15, 2006.
The granite wall titled "Katrina" with the date August 29, 2005 stands 12 feet tall and symbolizes the height of Hurricane Katrina's powerful tide surge.
At the base of the granite wall is the sculpture encased in glass. The sculpture is made of personal keepsakes donated by victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Thanks to Pareeerica for the use of A Touch Of Lace 1 texture, for the contest in Texturing The World.
These two lovely ladies want you to buy a portable generator for your favorite Father's Day recipient. They are greeting passing traffic from outside the Upland California Prep And Save store.
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Well, shortly after I posted my last upload yesterday, some pretty crazy stuff went down; first, our entire neighborhood suddenly lost all power. Luckily the rain had stopped by this point and the sun was gorgeously shining. Within 10 minutes, there were emergency crews coming to our door saying that the local power station had been completely submerged, power was lost, and that the river was rising dangerously fast, and that we needed to start getting out of there.
So we gathered up enough provisions for a few days, moved anything really important out of the basement (which would be the first part of the house to flood), and took off for an old friends house.
First, though, we stopped by over where the power station was to get some photos. There was a large crowd of bystanders there, but I was able to get some really cool shots of the power station submerged by the Bow River, which has reached heights never before seen! This power station sits beyond a large golf driving range and tennis court, and was itself raised up about 20 feet further than the surrounding terrain, and the water had gotten right to the base of it and was still rising!
Much of Calgary has become massively flooded; our entire downtown core has been evacuated and business has been shut down until probably at least middle of next week.
The people of Calgary are truly pulling together to help each other out, though; people were posting to kijiji and craigslist and facebook and twitter saying they had food to give out, rooms in their homes for evacuees to stay, offering to use their vehicles to help haul debris or transport people, police and other emergency services were literally working 24 hour shifts while their own homes were getting flooded to help get people out of harms way and restore vital services to the city...it was truly inspiring!
As of now, Saturday morning, the worst of the flooding is believed to have passed, the evacuation notice on our area has been lifted, and power to our area has been restored, so we have returned home, but many parts of the city are still under huge amounts of water, and at least 100,000 people are currently between homes.
This is definitely a historic event; the worst flood southern Alberta has ever seen. At first it was doubtful whether it would rival the flooding of 2005, or the worse flooding of 1995, but it has eclipsed both those events in its severity!
As the Chinese proverb says, may you live in interesting times!
Anyways, my friends, I hope you are all having a wonderful and safe weekend and I will keep you all updated about the situation here in Calgary!
More flood photos to come over the course of the weekend!
Women involved in community meeting to discuss village reconstruction. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Project: JRF. Photo: Nugroho Nurdikiawan Sunjoyo / World Bank
Photo ID: NNS-ID013 World Bank
Kuakata, Bangladesh.
Humans explored the moon more than 40 years ago. They are now heading towards the Mars, and digging dip into Martian meteorites in search of extraterrestrial life. While they continue to explore their boundaries and try to find their purpose in this universe, nature continues to test the limits of human strength to fight back, on this very planet. Being the most vulnerable yet the most intelligent species of this earth, human race try to push their limit in an effort to survive the odds imposed by decimating natural disasters.
In November 2007, cyclone 'Sidr', an unruly son of nature swept off the coastal region of Bangladesh. 'Kuakata', a small seaside community in the district "Patuakhali" was completely devastated by the cyclone. The retreating tidal waves took thousands of souls into the vastness of the ocean and left most of the people homeless. Most of the families lost their close ones who were involved in deep sea fishing at that time. The frighteningly fierce waves rose so high and entered so deep into the habitable lands that the map of this coastal region changed forever. At least a kilometer of the coastline permanently submerged under the sea. The Sundarbans, world's largest mangrove forest was largely devastated while trying to absorb the shock of the cyclone.
It has been more than four years since the harsh reality of the nightmare called 'Sidr', and the wound it left on the community is still raw, evoking sharp pain every time it is touched by the memories. However, although Sidr stripped away the community off close relatives and resources, it could not rob the undaunted spirit that the people of this area protect in their hearts. The community is turning back again, venturing deeper into the same sea for fishing, which snatched away all their hopes. They've rebuilt their homes, mosques and boats. Sundarbans, the century old guardian, is sprouting new leaves and regaining its vigor.
Ernest Hemingway said “A man can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." While you think of evidences for such extraordinary claims, take a look at Kuakata. You'll get your answer. Kuakata, with all its relentless and courageous fighters proudly stands there, as the epitome of human resilience.